Convention Center Package Benefits PCMA
For the fourth time, the Professional Convention Management Association’s convention center silent auction is offering the highest bidder a greatly reduced rate for an annual meeting package. This year the destination is New Orleans....
Green Meeting Association Aims for Innovative Conference Design
The Green Meeting Industry Council is promising some outside-the-box programming at its annual Sustainable Meetings Conference, February 20–23 in Portland, Ore. ...
Trend Spotting for Meeting Planners: Oil, AA, SMM, CEOs
The price of meetings is going up—and not just because of increased demand and the swing to the seller’s market. StarCite's Kevin Iwamoto has his eye on the price of oil, too, and the move by American Airlines to reduce its own distribution costs thereby potentially increasing your booking costs. Here's how it could play out—and why you must be prepared to manage another round of meeting and travel spending cuts....
Commentary: I Have Seen the Future
Last week, I saw the future of meeting venues.
Just 88 days before the April opening date for the new Ottawa Convention Centre, members of the OCC Advisory Board donned hard hats, steel-toed boots, reflective vests, and safety glasses to tour a project for which the local meetings industry had been fighting, lobbying, and begging for 15 years....
PCMA: High Rolling in Vegas
A record crowd is gathered in Las Vegas for Convening Leaders, the annual meeting of the Professional Convention Management Association. ...
Commentary: Defending the Meetings That Matter
Convention centers are at ground zero for many of the changes that are sweeping the meetings industry. So it’s encouraging that the International Association of Congress Centres (AIPC) is emphasizing the impact and results that make face-to-face meetings worthwhile....
Welsh and Callahan-Giobbi Head for Chicago
Two well-known meeting industry professionals have landed prestigious new jobs. Donald P. Welsh, 54, has been named president and CEO of the Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau. Katie Callahan-Giobbi has joined Chicago-based Minding Your Business as vice president of sales and strategic account management....
Associated Luxury Hotels International Acquires Hinton + Grusich
Washington, D.C.–based Associated Luxury Hotels International has acquired Chicago-based Hinton + Grusich, expanding the sales network for the 130 four- and five-diamond properties in ALHI’s membership portfolio. ...
Six Meeting Trends for 2011
IMEX America, the worldwide exhibition for the incentive travel, meetings and events business, which debuts October 11–13 in Las Vegas, recently asked meeting industry chief executives what they see ahead for events this year. ...
16 Tips for a Healthy, Balanced 2011
To inspire you to start the new year on a healthy and energetic note, we asked insurance and financial services meeting planners and hospitality partners to share their best tips for feeling great and traveling well....
Bocce—the New Golf?
Bocce may be more than 5,000 years old, but it's getting new life as meeting activity....
Air Security Inconvenience Is an Economic Issue, Study Says
In a new study of 1,000 people who had flown at least once in the past two years, nearly two out of three said they would fly more if security procedures were equally as effective as they are now but less intrusive and time consuming....
Duffy Leaves Maritz to Lead Cruise Association
Christine Duffy, president and CEO of Maritz Travel, is leaving the company to become president of Cruise Lines International Association on February 1. ...
Study Says Slow Visa Process Hurts Attendance
Problems related to obtaining visas precluded 116,000 international participants from attending exhibitions in the U.S. this year....
Fenton to Leave Team San Jose; City to Revisit Center Management
Chief executive officer at Team San Jose, Daniel Fenton has resigned. The announcement comes a week after the San Jose (Calif.) city council announced that it would solicit requests for proposal for new convention center management....
Commentary: Is Sustainability a Threat to Meetings?
If you take green initiatives to the extreme, “the only real solution is not to have the meeting at all, which is not exactly a great business development strategy.”...
Get that VAT! Yes, You Should Reclaim Value-Added Tax
Call in the experts to maximize your ability to reclaim taxes paid at meetings outside the United States....
Global Rebound on the Ground and in the Air
Across all regions of the globe, revenue per available room is up through the first three quarters of 2010, while global air capacity is up 6 percent for Decmeber. ...
Commentary: Six Lessons from the Flight that Wouldn't End
Gen. Charles de Gaulle would not have been amused if he knew that the airport that now bears his name could be shut down by two inches of snow. ...
PCMA Creates Incentive to Book Inside the Block, Access to Virtual Edge
The Professional Convention Management Association is offering lower registration fees for its January annual meeting to attendees who book in the official room block. ...
Tool Time: Get Ready for the Web Browser of the Future
We spend more time using our browser than using any other software, yet for many, Web browsers are an “open whatever you have on your desktop” experience. But that’s changing. Get ready for the browser of the future. ...
App Map: How to Produce a Mobile Meeting Guide
before your association takes the meeting-in-your-pocket leap, start by answering a key question: Does a mobile tool make sense for the meeting?...
Directory of Mobile Meeting Guide Developers
The developers in this guide create mobile applications and mobile-optimized Web sites for events and conferences...
TS2 Canceled for 2011
TS2, the trade show for exhibit and event professionals, has been canceled for 2011 as the show’s owner, National Trade Productions Inc., retools the event for 2012....
Hotel Construction Pipeline Down 72 Percent From Peak
The recession of the past two years will affect new hotel construction for the next three years, and the projected slowdown in supply is good news for the hotel industry....
Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | Next
