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
MPI and HSMAI Launch Dual Membership
Meeting Professionals International and Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International are offering a dual membership discount for suppliers in both associations.
ASAE Convention Draws Over 6,000 to Dallas 1
ASAE, the Center for Association Leadership, welcomed over 6,000 delegates to its annual convention in Dallas, August 11-14.
A Tale of Two Presidents
Few would argue that former President Bill Clinton is a gifted orator, as witnessed by his nomination speech at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night in Charlotte, N.C.
bXb Online Announces BOBtv—Best of Business Television 

bXb Online founder Tony Lorenz, CMM, has introduced the name of the online television platform that aims to aggregate live and on-demand video content from numerous live meetings and conventions: BOBtv—best of business television.
AIBTM Buyers See Events Business Grow
AIBTM surveyed some 327 respondents in the Americas, who collectively organized more than 6,660 events in the past 12 months.
IRF Spring 2012 Pulse Survey: Incentives Are Way Back
The Incentive Research Foundation looks at years of data and finds that incentive travel has regained its footing.
Check In: You CAN Help the Meetings Industry
I hope you joined me in signing your organization’s name to an open letter from ASAE to Congress on May 7. More than 2,100 of us asked lawmakers to consider revisions to amendments passed in two separate bills in April placing severe restrictions on ...
Corporate Social Responsibility Tip Sheet
Quick advice for creating productive corporate social responsibility activities
Going Green in Germany
Planner training could be a model for other countries' sustainability efforts.
Pharma Forum 2012: Saving the World One Meeting at a Time
How to extend the reach of your event’s corporate social responsibility activity
AIBTM Features High-Powered Keynotes and a Future Events Experience
Second annual AIBTM show opens in Baltimore June 19.
Industry Mourns Orlando's Gary Sain
Gary Sain, 61, president and CEO of Visit Orlando, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Friday evening, May 4, after giving opening remarks at a charitable
IMEX Turns 10
IMEX The Worldwide Exhibition for Incentive Travel, Meetings, and Events celebrated its 10th anniversary May 22-24 in Frankfurt, Germany, with an appropriate
Boston Marriott Long Wharf
HOW DO YOU TAKE a hotel that rates in the top 10 Marriotts in the country for guest satisfaction and make it even better? Spend four years and $30 million
IMEX Celebrates its 10th Anniversary
IMEX—The Worldwide Exhibition for Incentive Travel, Meetings, and Events—celebrated its 10th anniversary in Frankfurt, Germany.

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