Top 3 Green Destinations
Portland, San Francisco, and Banff/Lake Louise have raised the bar...
ExCeL London: Pumped for Its Olympic Moment
ExCeL London, the 10-year-old exhibition center near London's burgeoning Canary Wharf financial district, was missing one key piece to make it complete: conference space. That changed last week, when ExCeL's International Convention Centre expansion officially opened. ...
MPI to Offer Chapter Management. First Up: New England
Meeting Professionals International has created a new association-management division to manage some of its chapters, starting with New England....
First Training Session on New Green Meeting Standards
Meeting planners and suppliers can finally dig into the industry's long-awaited sustainable meeting standards. While the new APEX green standards won't officially launch until September or later, the first training program on how to use them will be held July 24, in Vancouver, British Columbia, just prior to Meeting Professionals International World Education Conference....
NBTA to Offer SMM Tools and Training
An August seminar and upcoming toolkit bring NBTA’s strategic meetings management know-how to the fore. ...
Green/CSR Ideas From 5 of Your Fellow Meeting Managers
Learn from the pros...
Post Con: After Hours with Jim Schultenover
Learn more about the Krisam Group and GEP president...
A Dozen Ideas from the FICP Education Forum
If you weren’t among the 150 attendees at the Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Education Forum in St. Louis June 16–18, we've got some informational nuggets straight from the general session stage and the breakout-room round tables....
PCMA Co-Locates with AIBTM, Virtual Edge
The Professional Convention Management Association has announced that it will co-locate its 2011 Education Conference with AIBTM (The Americas Meetings and Events Exhibition) next June in Baltimore, and it has struck a deal to have the Virtual Edge Summit, a meeting about virtual meetings, co-located at PCMA's annual meeting in Las Vegas, January 9-12....
Commentary: Five Simple Steps to Protect Online Privacy at Meetings
A recent survey on Internet privacy and reputation management points to some interesting twists on the road to integrating meetings with social media. ...
Incentive Travel Exchange to Take Its Popular Format to Europe
Questex Media Group LLC announced last week at its fifth Incentive Travel Exchange in Las Vegas that it will launch a new event in Europe, the Europe Meeting & Incentive Travel Exchange (EMITE), for European buyers and global suppliers, October 17-19, 2011, at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge in London....
Major Meeting Survey Shows Planner Optimism for 2010/2011
U.S. meeting professionals are planning more meetings, canceling fewer, and expecting higher attendance than they had last year. These are among the findings in a new survey of more than 500 U.S. meeting planners that shows an industry on the road to recovery....
Abraham Launches Meeting Management Group
Rod Abraham, founder of full-service meeting management firm R.E. Abraham & Associates and The Professional Meeting Planners Network (PMPN), has formed a new company called The Rod Abraham Group, based in Durham, N.C. His new company will focus on meeting planning and management, as well as providing on-site staffing on a contract basis. ...
Spotlight on South Africa in World Cup’s Opening Week
A new international airport, a state-of-the-art commuter train, a really loud horn...South Africa revels in World Cup mania....
Event Organizers and the International Challenge
Though international travel to the United States was up 15 percent in the first two months of 2010 over the same period in 2009, it will take a lot more positive news to reverse a 10-year downward trend, characterized as the "lost decade" by Roger Dow, president and chief executive officer at the U.S. Travel Association, who spoke at the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum on June 2 in Washington, D.C....
Commentary: 6 Ways You Can Help Prevent the Next Oil Spill
As images of spreading oil plumes, devastated Gulf Coast communities, and dead seabirds fill our TV screens, it's easy to warp back and forth between a sense of futility and an urge to assign responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe....
The Next Big Thing for Meetings? Convention 2020 Will Show You
By identifying past and current drivers of change in the world at large and in meeting planning in particular, Rohit Talwar of Fast Future is leading the Convention 2020 research project, whose aim is no less than showing the meetings industry the path to a successful future....
How to Build Better Hotelier-Meeting Planner Relationships
Even in the age of an increasing demand for transparency, strategic meetings management, and preferred suppliers, where RFPs are submitted online into a nameless, faceless centralized database, there is still room for strong hospitality-meeting planner relationships. It just takes a little more work. ...
Will Hotel Rates Rise Sooner Than Expected?
With the luxury segment leading the way, hotels' average daily rate may rise more quickly than previously projected....
Social Media for Meetings: Two New Resources
Creating and executing a social-media strategy has become a must in the meeting and event planning process. For those learning the ropes, two new resources were announced in early June: a free white paper, produced by TBA Global, and an online certificate course through The International School of Hospitality. ...
Web Sites and E-Mail Still Tops for Lead Gen
It's all about the leads. That's the word from a new survey of 500 technology industry marketing professionals, conducted for Unisfair, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based virtual events platform. More than two thirds of respondents (68 percent) said leads are their top marketing priority, far exceeding those who pointed to brand awareness or customer retention as their main concern (16 percent each)....
Mobile Makes Meeting Inroads: 5 New Apps
Mobile phones are changing the meeting experience, from how we interact with a destination to the way we register on site. Here are five new applications that illustrate the trend....
Gulf Coast Destinations Navigate Oil Spill
BP officials are reporting some progress in funneling oil from the broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, but the environmental disaster is far from over. While an increasing number of meeting groups booked into Gulf Coast hotels are canceling because of the spill, destinations along the Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast are working hard to promote the fact that their beaches—and their meeting rooms—are open for business....
MPI Delivers Turnkey Campaign Kit with “Meetings Deliver”
New resource will help spread the good news about the value of meetings and the industry’s steady rebound...
Chicago’s McCormick Place Labor Reform Law Passed
On May 7, the Illinois General Assembly overrode a veto by Governor Pat Quinn and passed a law designed to reduce labor costs and make Chicago more competitive as a convention destination. ...
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