Certified Meeting Professional
The foremost certification program in today's meetings, convention, and exhibition industry, the Certified Meeting Professional designation recognizes those who have achieved the industry's highest standard of professionalism. It is bestowed by the Convention Industry Council.
Education Gets Serious
Today's financial services and insurance meeting planners have entered the profession from a host of different directions. Laurie Fitzgerald, CMP, meeting manager at Northbrook, Ill. — based Allstate Financial, for example, majored in Spanish in college. “I started in human resources at the Ritz-Carlton in Chicago in 1983 because they were looking for people who spoke Spanish,” she says. Others got into the field from such diverse degrees or beginning job experiences as marketing and communications, other insurance positions, and hospitality ...
Moving Up in the Meetings Industry
Todd Zint had a plan. Back in 1998, after three and a half years as one of 24 meeting planners for Santa Ana, Calif. based technology company Ingram Micro, he knew that the only way he could move up in his meeting planning career was to leave the company. So, he took a position at Newport Beach, Calif. based Equitable Distributors, LLC (the wholesale distribution arm of Equitable) as manager of meeting...
Meeting Planner Certification
What do those Letters mean? The meeting and event industry has at least four certifications for corporate planners, and many more for the suppliers who serve them. Here's a glossary of the acronyms you'll find trailing behind the names of our industry's most dedicated and accomplished professionals. CMP. The Convention Industry Council's Certified Meeting Professional designation is the most widely...
To CMP OR NOT to CMP
The value of getting a CMP includes personal pride, professional development, and respect from hoteliers,ā€¯ says John Touchette, CMP, general director, meeting management/administration for John Hancock Financial Services in Boston....
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Convention Industry Council
The Convention Industry Council's 32 member organizations represent more than 103,500 individuals, as well as over 17,300 firms and properties involved in the meetings, conventions and exhibitions industry....
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Creating Green-Meetings Standards
An industrywide effort to produce achievable, voluntary standards for greener meetings and events is under way. The Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX), an initiative of the Convention Industry Council, is working with the Environmental Protection Agency and ASTM International Standards to create baseline guidelines that both meeting managers and the hospitality community can embrace. Join us for a free webinar.
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What Meeting Planners Need to Know to Manage E-Meetings
Virtual meetings save time and money, get a thumbs-up from the “green” crowd, and offer new ways for companies and organizations to communicate, market, and sell. It’s time for meeting managers to start booking and managing them.
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CVB Supplement 2008
The Changing Face of CVBs
Featuring:*Changing Face of CVB's
*CVB's Go Green
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