DMCs Battle Against Burdensome Taxes
DMCs asking for industry support...
HSMAI Awards Best in Travel Marketing
Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International honored the best in travel advertising, public relations, and Web marketing at the annual Adrian Awards Gala, held February 1 at the New York Marriott Marquis...
Incentive Research Foundation “Cautiously Optimistic” about 2010
The most recent pulse survey from the Incentive Research Foundation indicates some stabilization in incentive budgets and spending in 2010. ...
Meetings and Incentives Partners With Travelocity Business
Meetings and Incentives, the Caledonia, Wis.-based meetings management company, will partner with corporate travel management company giant Travelocity Business....
Kuoni Buys TBA Global’s U.S. Destination Management Division
You'll soon get to know Kuoni—the high-end leisure travel and tour company that just purchased the U.S. destination management operations of TBA Global. We spoke with the CEO....
New Travel Regulation for International Visitors Takes Effect
Effective January 20, inbound travelers to the United States from Visa Waiver Program countries may be denied boarding by the airlines if they haven’t complied with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. ...
The 2009 Hotel Scene: How Bad Was It?
Most Procurement Managers Don't "Get" Meetings Yet: ISM-NBTA Summit
The 175 attendees at the recent joint summit between the Institute for Supply Management and National Business Travel Association were the elite few taking the leap into not only managing their companies' business travel but also getting their arms around meeting spend. ...
FICP Northeast Regional Meeting Report
Where members and hospitality partners from Financial & Insurance Conference Planners gather, networking and best practices follow. Here's some of what we heard at the recent Northeast Regional FICP Meeting at Tarrytown House Estate & Conference Center...
Commentary: The Costs of Security Theater
At least one good thing resulted from the Christmas Day incident when would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 into Detroit. Finally, the phrase "security theater" has made its way into the public lexicon to describe the billions of dollars governments have spent slamming barn doors shut after the livestock have left the premises. ...
Snapshot of HelmsBriscoe in 2009: 18,000 Programs, 3 Million Room Nights
HelmsBriscoe has grown from a innovative idea in 1992 to a major force in the meetings industry. Here's a look inside the company's Annual Business Conference. ...
On Location: Australia
Climbing aboard a camel to see the sun rise over Ayers Rock was spectacular. Scrambling up through the infrastructure of The Sydney Harbour Bridge for a one-of-a-kind view of Australia's top incentive city was exhilarating...
Aria Resort: Design and Service Take Center Stage
Walking into the Aria Resort & Casino, in the new $8.5 billion CityCenter complex in Las Vegas, is not like walking into any other casino-based resort in the city. The casino, even at 150,000 square feet, does not dominate. You don’t even see it at first. What stands out is design, art, architecture, the fact that this place is really interesting. ...
On Location: Great Wolf Lodges, Wisconsin Dells, Wis.
Great Wolf Resorts is North America's largest family of indoor waterpark resorts. Its 12 hotel/meeting facility/indoor waterparks are located in Wisconsin Dells, Wis.; Sheboygan, Wis...
Venue Updates: New/Expanded Hotels
Venue Updates: New/Expanded Hotels across the country...
Two new hotels open at L.A. LIVE
New to downtown L.A.: The Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles and the JW Marriott Hotel, Los Angeles ...
What Happens in Vegas Stays in … Budget
Planners concerned about the perception of Las Vegas as a meeting destination might try pitching the city as the biggest value in meetings right now. Room rates remain low, even as the hotel towers keep rising in the desert....
King of Caring: The Search Foundation's Michael Cerbelli
An interview with Michael Cerbelli, president of Special Events at Total Entertainment, Carlstadt, N.J., is again at the helm of the Search Foundation, a Scottsdale, Ariz.–based organization...
POST CON After Hours with Carina Bauer
Meet Carina Bauer, CEO, IMEX Group, East Sussex, U.K., which manages IMEX America and IMEX Frankfurt...
Dubai Renames World’s Tallest Tower for Abu Dhabi Sheik
After giving billions of dollars to his neighboring emirate to relieve its debt burden, Abu Dhabi Sheik Kalifah gets the tallest building in the world named after him....
Haiti Relief Flows from Meetings and Hospitality Industries
The world is reaching out to help the people of Haiti in the wake of the 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck 10 miles outside of Port-au-Prince on January 12. Here are some easy ways you can help the relief efforts, along with a list of some of the efforts under way from the meetings and hospitality industries...
Sustainable Meetings: Why Copenhagen Leads the Way
More than 15,000 participants from around the world converged in Copenhagen for two weeks in December during the United Nation’s 15th Climate Change Conference (COP15). The conference was a golden opportunity to showcase an impressive array of investments and initiatives that have put Copenhagen in the forefront of green-meetings destinations. Here's a look at a few:...
NBTA Creates European Arm
In a major expansion of its operations, the National Business Travel Association has launched a new European arm, NBTA Europe. Several associations have partnered with NBTA to create NBTA Europe—the Danish Business Travel Association, Iberian Business Travel Association of Spain and Portugal, Institute of Travel & Meetings of the UK and Ireland, Netherlands Association for Travel Management, Norwegian Business Travel Association, and Swedish Business Travel Association—and their 2,000 corporate and government travel manager and supplier members will automatically become members of NBTA Europe for one year. ...
SEARCH Foundation Adds Education to Caring Mission
The SEARCH Foundation, a Scottsdale, Ariz.–based organization dedicated to offering financial assistance to event professionals facing catastrophic circumstances, is expanding its mission. Using funds from the now-defunct International Special Events Education Foundation, the nonprofit SEARCH Foundation will begin providing educational grants and scholarships to the industry. ...
Cool Meetings Tools for 2010
2010? That can’t be right. It sounds so … so … futuristic. Mind you, 2009 had that same ring to it in about 1997, but 2010 just seems like an Arthur Clarke book title. (Actually, it is, but that’s another department.) Let’s take a look toward the 2010 horizon at the technologies that will affect the way meeting professionals manage and plan, and the way attendees interact with the world. ...
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