Betsy Bair

Content Director
MeetingsNet and Association Meetings

(978) 448-0582

Betsy oversees content and editorial for MeetingsNet, including Association Meetings, Corporate Meetings & Incentives, Medical Meetings, and Religious Conference Manager magazines, meetingsnet.com, MeetingsNet Extra, as well as several other e-newsletters. She also oversees MeetingsNet’s popular educational webinar series and speaks on meeting planning trends and topics at industry events and has been a guest lecturer at Boston University School of Hospitality Administration. She co-organizes two annual forums for pharmaceutical meeting managers with partner CBI. Prior to joining MeetingsNet, she served in staff writing positions for Travel Agent magazine and Travel Management Daily.

Articles by Betsy Bair
AIBTM Debuts in Chicago, Planner Attendance Up
Education, dialogue, pre-scheduled appointments highlight the third AIBTM.
Cvent Attracts 500 Corporate Planners to the Peabody Orlando
More than 500 buyers, 70 Cvent employees, and 30 hoteliers converged on the Peabody Orlando June 5–7 for the second Cvent Corporate Meetings Summit in June.
Shelter in Place: A Boston Perspective
How conferences carried on despite a "shelter in place" advisory after the Boston Marathon bombings.
Mietkiewicz and Schilt Named as Pacesetters by Convention Industry Council
Convention Industry Council will present Pacesetter Awards to Robyn Mietkiewicz, CMP, CMM, and Meghan Schilt.
APEX/ASTM Sustainable Standard on Accommodations Published
The American Society for Testing and Materials International (ASTM) has published standard E2772 on sustainable accommodations, the ninth and final of the APEX/ASTM standards.
Global Meetings, Technology, and Brain Food Highlight AIBTM’s Education
Learn about hybrid meetings, the brain science behind productive conferences, working with global partners, and much more at AIBTM, June 11-13 in Chicago.
Think Beyond Rows
The pros and cons of four innovative meeting room set ups.
Site Texas Sponsors Technology Summit 2013 in Cancun, Mexico
The Texas chapter of Site, the global association of incentive travel executives, is hosting Technology Summit 2013, May 4 to 6, at Secrets The Vine Cancun Resort & Spa in Cancun, Mexico.
InterContinental Miami: Muy Elegante
The iconic InterContinental Miami has undergone a $30 million transformation that lights up Miami's skyline and oceanfront.
More Than Just “Meeting Planners”
A panel at the 2013 Pharma Forum declared that it’s time for a new job title that actually reflects the full extent of what today’s meeting managers have to know and do.
IMEX Frankfurt Promises Innovation, 4,000 Hosted Buyers
What connects 4,000 event buyers with some 3,500 event suppliers to create nearly 60,000 one-on-one appointments within a three-day period each May? It’s IMEX Frankfurt, the worldwide exhibition for incentive travel, meetings, and events coming up May 21–23.
Runzler to Dedicate Time to Charitable Efforts
Tammi Runzler is leaving her role as senior vice president of convention sales and services for Visit Orlando to dedicate her time to a charity she co-founded, My Neighbor’s Children.
Best Practices for Sustainable Meetings on Stage in Chicago
The Green Meeting Industry Council, celebrating its 10th anniversary, brings its Sustainable Meetings Conference 2013 to Chicago’s McCormick Place, April 7–10.
Movement Trumps Sitting
"Brain Candy" is one of the best sessions I've attended at a meeting industry conference.
BI WORLDWIDE Hires Mary MacGregor 2
Minneapolis-based BI WORLDWIDE has hired Mary MacGregor as vice president, travel group, which includes its meeting solutions team.

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