Seoul, London, and Sydney Create Meetings Partnership
The Future Convention Cities Intitiative will gather top worldwide meeting destinations to share research best practices....
Texts and the City: MPI New England Loves SCVNGR Event
For this year’s annual summer outing, the New England Chapter of Meeting Professionals International found an activity that engaged both buyers and suppliers, encouraged networking and interaction, was on the cutting edge of technology—and also got high marks for being a blast. Check it out....
Best and Worst Cities for Travel Taxes: New NBTA Study
The National Business Travel Association Foundation and Concur, the Redmond, Wash.-based provider of spend-management services, have produced their annual report on taxes and fees on travel services, revealing the U.S. cities with the highest and lowest tax burden. ...
App Overload? New Portal Sorts Them for Meeting Pros
A new site focused on smartphone apps for meeting professionals has just launched at MeetingApps.com. The portal, listing about 500 apps, was created by Kirsten Strand, CMP, CITE, CMM, CEO at Invenia, a Vancouver, British Columbia–based site selection and meeting consultancy....
7 Reasons Why Organizers Need to Develop Meeting Apps Now
Technology forecaster and business strategist Daniel Burrus believes that meeting planners who aren’t developing mobile technology apps (short for applications) are making a big mistake. ...
Tool Time: Travel Sites, Travel Apps, Travel Ease
On the road again. Summertime is travel time for so many of us, which makes it a great time to share some Web tools and phone apps designed to help us travel more efficiently, whether for planning meetings, attending meetings, or for pleasure trips....
Virtual Meeting Use: It’s Nearly Unanimous
A remarkable 96 percent of meeting and event planners report that their organizations use virtual meetings solutions—either Web-based meetings, videoconferencing, or TelePresence. That finding comes from a comprehensive and wide-ranging study on meeting policy and spending released earlier this summer by travel-management giant Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Minnetonka, Minn. ...
Why Planners are Heading to the 2010 FICP Annual Conference
Attending the 2010 Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Annual Conference in November is a great way to experience the new Fontainebleau Miami Beach. But it's a lot more, too...
Hyatt Introduces Worldwide Sales Strategy for Insurance and Financial Planners
As of September 1, Hyatt properties worldwide will be consolidated under one national sales umbrella, making global sourcing simpler for insurance and financial services planners....
The Promise of Hybrid Meetings
For Christopher Gribbs, managing director, convention, at the American Institute of Architects, the “aha!” moment for the potential of virtual meetings came at the 2009 AIA Annual Conference in San Francisco....
NBTA Is Abuzz About SMM; Name Change
Strategic meetings management has been a recurring theme at the National Business Travel Association International Convention and Exposition, which opened Sunday in Houston. ...
How Would a UAE BlackBerry Ban Affect Meetings?
Early this month, the United Arab Emirates, home of up-and-coming meeting, convention, and incentive destinations Dubai and Abu Dhabi, announced that it would shut down BlackBerry data service on October 11 if an agreement isn't reached that allows the country's regulators to tap into encrypted BlackBerry messages. ...
MPI WEC 2010: Tools, Tips, and Trade Shows
MPI's 2010 annual congress focused on sustainability, the value of meetings, and careers....
Registered Traveler: Back in the Fast Lane?
Registered Traveler, the program created by the Transportation Security Administration then run by the private sector to move pre-screened travelers quickly through airport security, is set to relaunch after going belly up a year ago. Indianapolis Airport Authority, working with iQueue Priority Access, will begin fast-lane service on August 16....
12 Tips for Top-Notch Production
An in-house production expert reveals planners' best bets for working with directors, producers, and other AV challenges....
Myths and Realities: The CVB and DMC Quiz
CVBs only care about citywides, right? DMCs just do ground transportation, don't they? We've got a few more myths to dispel....
Your Contract Negotiation Wish List
A panel of planners and hospitality partners at the Financial & Insurance Conference Planners 2010 Northeast Region Summer Meeting recently shared their biggest wishes for the negotiation process. Can we all find common ground? Check out the conversation...
FICP Shifts Board, Executive Director Roles
The Financial & Insurance Conference Planners board of directors boosts its focus on strategy, FICP headquarters names a membership manager, and Executive Director Steve Bova ramps up relationship management....
The Promise of Hybrid Meetings
The Promise—and the Challenge—of Blending Live and Virtual Events...
NBTA Members and WSJ Readers Pick Top Business Travel Innovations
Arizona Convention Boycott Called Off: What Will it Mean for Meetings?
After a ruling by Judge Susan Bolton of the U.S. District Court for Arizona that strips out some of the most controversial aspects of the Arizona immigration law (S.B. 1070), Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) has called off his boycott of meetings and conventions to the state, which has evoked reactions from every corner of the meetings industry....
AIBTM Increases Hosted-Buyer Program Due to Popular Demand
AIBTM, The Americas Meetings & Events Exhibition, is increasing the number of hosted buyers it will accommodate to 2,000 for its inaugural event in Baltimore in June 2011, a substantial bump up from the 500 hosted buyers AIBTM organizers had originally announced. ...
Oil Spill to Cost Gulf Region $22.7 Billion
The Gulf Coast region stands to lose $22.7 billion in travel-related revenue over the next three years due to the BP oil spill unless federal authorities act swiftly to promote the area, says the U.S. Travel Association. To offset the damages, U.S. Travel plans to lobby congress to set aside $500 million for tourism marketing in the area....
Commentary: A CSR Result Worth Measuring
Most meeting activities aimed at satisfying a commitment to corporate social responsibility are meaningful to meeting professionals and to a small minority of participants, but mostly irrelevant to the social, economic, and environmental goals with which our organizations are trying to align....
Travel Industry Reads Doom Into New White House Eco Goals
Dig into President Obama's recently announced target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from a slew of sources including employee commuting and travel and you'll find reasonable suggestions....
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