February 1, 2005
Cover Story
The NEW ROI: Too Tough to Tackle?
DURING MEETING PROFESSIONALS INTERNATIONAL'S ROI Summit last July, Tracey Smith, manager, events programming, at Thomson RIA, a Dallas-based software...
Upfront
It's Not About Parties
WHILE PARTICIPATING in a panel discussion last month at The Luxury Show in New York City, it struck me how hard it is to be a supplier in our industry....
News & Info
Procurement Paper and Toolkit from MPI
TACKLING ONE of the industry's most troublesome issues head-on, Meeting Professionals International, through a paper from its Global Corporate Circle...
IMEX Announces Wild Card Winners
Timor-Leste in southeast Asia, Pau in southwest France, and Cameroon in Africa are celebrating their entry onto the show floor at IMEX, a worldwide exhibition...
air blog
Want to keep up on the airfare structure simplification introduced by Delta Air Lines and spreading industrywide? (See page 8.) The Business Travel Coalition...
Delta Ends Meeting Fares
IN EARLY JANUARY, Delta Air Lines mailed a form letter to its meeting planner customers announcing the demise of the Delta Meeting Network. As of February...
Caesars' Yaskin Dies
THE MEETING INDUSTRY lost a friend in January when John Yaskin, senior vice president of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, died of cancer at age 48. During...
MPI/PCMA Partner on Diversity
MEETING PROFESSIONALS International and the Professional Convention Management Association are launching a multiculturalism toolkit that will be distri-buted...
Meetings
Don't Get Emotional: A Crash Course on Listening
I ONCE MET with two women to discuss listening training as a vital aspect of executive development. After a few casual remarks, I asserted that listening...
How the DMCs Stack Up
They manage events, they manage meetings, but somehow destination management companies don't manage to get much exposure. In its December 2004 issue,...
Branching Out
U.S meeting planners project a slight increase in the number of international meetings in 2005, according to MPI's FutureWatch survey. U.S. planners say...
WHAT'S IN YOUR E-MAIL?
THE CAN-SPAM ACT went into effect January 1, restricting unsolicited commercial e-mail and imposing stiff penalties for violations. The Act defines unsolicited...
What People Do on Conference Calls
EVER WONDER WHAT people are actually doing on the other end of a conference call? You can bet that you don't have their undivided attention, according...
Dress for Success
JUST WHAT EXACTLY IS BUSINESS CASUAL? It's a question that meeting planners are often asked by their attendees. But planners can quell attendees' concerns...
AND THE WINNER IS
THE NECESSARY CONCLUSION to many a meeting, the traditional corporate awards ceremony has a long, if unexciting, history. Often formal and colorless,...
Look Out for SOX
BEWARE: If your accounting department hasn't yet taken an interest in your meeting spend documentation, it will. That's because section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley...
Incentives
fresh favors
Sometimes the best way to find something fresh is to look in an unlikely place. That goes for party favors: Instead of dealing with the same set of companies...
Surprises from The Special Event Show
THE CREATIVE ENERGY was flowing on the floor of The Special Event show, held January 5 to 8 in Miami Beach. What better place to find the trendiest touches...
Forum for Socially Responsible Travel
The first VolunTourism Forum was held February 2 at The Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. The forum has put a name, VolunTourism, on a trend that...
A PROMISING PERK
CONCIERGE SERVICES have moved from hotels to corporate America as an incentive for employees. PepsiCo headquarters in Purchase, N.Y., for example, has...
If It Ain't Broke
THE YEAR WAS 1974, and Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder topped the music charts. Richard M. Nixon became the first U.S. president to resign. Patricia Hearst...
Technology
e-Newsletters: Smart Meeting Communications?
THE BEAUTY OF A LIVE EVENT is in the interactions among the attendees, speakers, exhibitors, and even sponsors. The planner's challenge is to capture...
APEX Tech Council Adds Newsletter
The goal is straightforward: The meeting industry needs to communicate via computer. To that end, APEX the Convention Industry Council's project to develop...
eye on security
Book your security-conscious executive into the Cloud Nine suite at Boston's Nine Zero hotel, where access is controlled by iris-identification technology....
Social Networking at Meetings: IntroNetworks, Rio, SmartEvent (2005)
FEW WOULD ARGUE that milling about at coffee breaks or walking aisles of eager exhibitors is the most efficient way to network. Yet that's the business...
Sites
Venues Get Spruced up for the New Year
CONNECTED VIA SKYBRIDGE to the San Diego Padres' new Petco Park, the OMNI SAN DIEGO HOTEL is across the street from the San Diego Convention Center, at...
The Equinox
THE VENERABLE EQUINOX HOTEL, nestled in the Green Mountains of Vermont, entered a new phase in its 245-year history last year after a multimillion-dollar...
ultimate golf outing
Tickets go on sale next month for the 2006 Ryder Cup, to be held September 20-24 at the prestigious Kildare Golf and Country Club, Straffan, County Kildare....
Last Word
speaker
SPEAKER 1. (noun) one who makes a public speech. SPEAKER KITS Put together a binder with key information for your speakers and the forms that you need...
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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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