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
Two New Cities Join BestCities Alliance
What do Germany and Texas have in common?
Ovation Global DMC Announces 10 New Locations
Ovation Global DMC has announced 10 new destination management company locations in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.
Caesars Restructures Meetings Business, Sales Force
Caesars Entertainment Corp. is expanding its consolidated meetings sales and services model companywide, allowing clients to work with a mix of properties and venues with a single contact, contract, and minimum.
On Location: Villa Kennedy, Frankfurt, Germany
I’ve got the cure for the jet lag blues, and your next VIP group headed to Frankfurt, Germany, can have it, too. It’s called an anti-jet-lag massage
Proposed Government Ban Could Chill Meetings
A new government policy could have chilling effects on the association meetings industry.
New Event Calculator Tool Measures Your Meeting’s Impact
A powerful new calculator tool launched last week helps destination marketing organizations, or convention and visitor bureaus, prove the value of meetings and conventions to their local economies.
An Educated Consumer is a Hotel’s Best Customer
As I edited an article about the hospitality industry’s gradual shift from buyer’s to seller’s market, I was reminded of a Northeast discount clothing chain, Syms
St. Louis Pulls the Numbers—and All the Stops—for ASAE
The smile on Kitty Ratcliffe’s face stretched from ear to ear as she listened to the official attendance figures announced at the annual meeting of ASAE and the Center for Association Leadership, taking place in St. Louis from August 6-9.
Cvent to Use Millions in New Investments to Enhance Online Tech Tools
Cvent, a McLean, Va.–based online event management company, has raised $136 million in funding.
FRESH Conference Announced by Meeting Support Institute
The Meeting Support Institute is organizing the new FRESH Conference, January 15–17, 2012, in Copenhagen.
Physician Shares Likes, Dislikes About Live Medical Meetings
Stefan Schneeberger, M.D., an Austrian transplant surgeon, spoke about the benefits of live medical meetings during Association Day at IMEX.
America Meetings Week and AIBTM to Launch on June 21
With just two weeks until the launch of the inaugural Americas Meetings & Events Exhibition, or AIBTM, which takes over Baltimore June 21-23, organizer Reed Travel Exhibitions reports that more than 1,000 hosted buyers have been qualified and registered so far.
Making Good from Grief: Use Your Meeting Planning Skills to Help Others
Recent horrific weather-related disasters can bring out the good in the meeting planning community
Women, Leadership, and the Meetings Industry 1
A survey by Susan Sarfati, CEO, High Performance Strategies LLC, and Liz Jackson, president, Jackson Consulting Inc., helped shape the content for IMEX's first Women’s Leadership Forum.
Numbers Talk and So Can You
In my next life, I am going to be a media advocate for the meetings industry. I am going to travel to the city desk of every major newspaper (Of course,

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