Gratuity Guidelines for Meeting Planners 

Tips to take the stress out of tipping from Christy Lamagna...

Commentary: Sustainable Meeting Standards—Sorting Through Alphabet Soup  

Time and effort that will be needed to put the full menu of sustainable meeting standards into practice....

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....

Check In With Barbara Scofidio: Conflicting Information 

Meetings industry research is sending too many mixed messages ...

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. ...

Virtual Risk, Real Reward 

Adding a virtual component to your live meeting requires homework, teamwork, patience, and persistence. But the payoff was big for Thrivent Financial's National Sales Meeting....

Cruise Meetings and Safety: Q&A with a Cruise Pro 

Jo Kling has spent 30 years matching groups with ships. We got her perspective on safety after the tragedy of the Costa Concordia....

Costa Concordia Tragedy Prompts Cruise Industry Reviews and Changes 

Despite cruising’s historically excellent overall safety record, the January 13 shipwreck has prompted calls for cruise industry safety reviews and possible procedural and regulatory changes....

Korea Proclaims 2012 Convention Year  

Korea wants to raise its profile as a meetings destination and is turning its focus to improving the support and servicing of visiting groups....

Commentary: Are Conference Center Expansions a Boon or a Bane?  

It’s never been more important for the industry to get its analysis right, rather than assuming that every convention center expansion is an automatic winner....

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....

Destination Hotels & Resorts Creates Meeting Collection 

Meeting managers will find a unified voice and information when they look to book at one of the 38 Destinations Hotels & Resorts meeting properties, now known as the Destination Meeting Collection...

Kalahari Resort Sandusky Expands Ohio Convention Facility 

Kalahari Resort Sandusky, Ohio, officially debuted results of a 10-month, $22 million project in January....

Commentary: PCMA General Session Walks the Talk 

PCMA made a gutsy decision to blow up its opening general session and rebuild it from the ground up....

New Network for Virtual Content Launches 

Online event marketing agency bXb Online is creating a hub for virtual meetings content. ...

Incentive Programs: the Participant’s Perspective 

Ever wonder what the people who didn’t qualify for your incentive trip are thinking?...

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....

TED Founder Talks Meetings at PCMA 

TED founder Richard Saul Wurman engaged the audience at the Professional Convention Management Association’s 2012 Convening Leaders conference....

London Hotels Cater to Meeting Planners with Renovations 

Thanks in part to the convergence of two major events—the 2011 wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton and the 2012 Summer Olympic Games—the London hotel scene has been undergoing a flurry of new construction and major renovation that will appeals to meeting and event planners....

PCMA Pushes Innovation at San Diego Conference 

The Professional Convention Management Association's 2012 Convening Leaders annual meeting in San Diego, January 8–11, incorporates the live with the virtual, and a variety of format innovations....

Commentary: Sustainable F&B Is Hard to Define 

If you’re looking at food and beverage as an area where you can make your meetings more sustainable, it may be tougher than you think....

VEI’s New Digital Certification Program Gets Scholarship Money 

The Virtual Edge Institute's new Digital Event Strategist certification program has received $100,000 in support. ...

Active Network, Maker of RegOnline, Acquires StarCite 

New Active Network Business Solutions division covers companies' full range of events....

Winding Down 2011 With a Flurry of Newsmakers 

The end of 2011 saw a flurry of job-hopping on the supplier side of the meetings marketplace, particularly in destination marketing organizations. The hotel industry saw some big changes, too. ...

U.S.-Based Meetings Association Looks to Bring Meetings to Iraq 

Weeks after the U.S. pulled the last of its troops out of Iraq, talks between a U.S.-based meetings organization and the prime minister of Iraq are under way to bring business development conferences to the country....

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