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Sue Hatch

Corporate Meetings & Incentives, MeetingsNet

Sue Hatch contributes to Corporate Meetings & Incentives magazine, including its annual CMI 25 project; edits the weekly MeetingsNet Extra e-newsletter; and serves as managing editor for MeetingsNet’s online content. She began her career in the meetings industry in 1984 with positions at Business Travel News and Successful Meetings, and has authored a Frommer's guidebook on New England Beaches.

Articles by Sue Hatch

Buy an Idea, Support GMIC

The Green Meeting Industry Council Foundation is holding an "Idea Auction," to raise to suport its educational efforts.

Hearings Begin on GSA Scandal, Meeting Leaders Speak Out

As House and Senate committees begin hearings on the General Services Administration’s apparent excessive spending for its 2010 Western Regions Conference at the M Resort Spa Casino, industry organizations are urging a measured response to the scandal.

Online Matchmaking Service for Speakers and Events

A new online service wants to become event organizers' No. 1 source for finding experts—paid and unpaid—to deliver keynotes, fill panels, and lead breakout sessions.

Promote the Value of Meetings: New Tool Kit for Planners

U.S. Travel Association has just released a new Keep America Meeting tool kit for meeting professionals and venues.

AIBTM Manager Moves to New U.K. Meetings Show

Steve Knight, who served as project director for the Baltimore-based AIBTM in 2011, its inaugural year, and had worked for Reed since 2005, is now exhibition director for the new The Meetings Show UK.

Meeting on Sustainable Meetings Coming to Montréal

The Green Meeting Industry Council's Sustainable Meetings Conference will be in Montréal April 22–25.

Meeting Pros Try Online Brainstorming Tool

Belgium-based Synthetron has a well-constructed online crowdsourcing tool.

Conference Company Crusades Against Child Sex Trafficking

The worlds of child sex trafficking and meeting planning may seem at first not to have any intersection at all, but actually they do. Children are often

The Revere Is Coming, the Revere Is Coming

The Revere, a new luxury hotel, opens in downtown Boston’s theater district this spring.

Unpanels: A Virtual Success Story 3

What happens if the face-to-face meeting you want to translate to a virtual event doesn’t follow a standard format? Can an "unconference" be virtual?

Conference Company Crusades Against Child Sex Trafficking

Nix Conference & Meeting Management has helped to create the first Meeting Planner’s Code of Conduct to fight child sex trafficking at hotels.

Incentive Winners at the Super Bowl, VIP Style

The National Football League’s NFL On Location packages turn the Super Bowl into a VIP extravaganza.

U.S. Travel to Educate Lawmakers to Protect the Meetings Industry

The U.S. Travel Association has launched a new campaign to raise awareness in Congress about the importance of meetings and incentive travel to the economy.

Obama Travel Initiatives Met with Praise

President Barack Obama announced new initiatives aimed at boosting the economy by increasing the number of international visitors who travel to the United States each year.

Mega Convention Center Proposed for Queens, New York

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed building a 3.8 million-square-foot convention center in Queens.