Why Not Replace 20 Percent of Business Trips with Videoconferences?
When a comment from an EU Commissioner prompted media headlines saying the European Union had declared war on business trips, much discussion ensued. We look at the subtleties behind the sound bites....
Commentary: Two Lessons for Planners From COP15
The heavy lifting is still ahead for the scientists, negotiators, activists, and world leaders who are gathering this week for the global climate summit in Copenhagen...
Carina Bauer Promoted to CEO, IMEX Group
Carina Bauer now oversees the two IMEX shows, IMEX Frankfurt and IMEX America. ...
Incentive Research Foundation Opens Search for President; Katusak to Step Down
After 10 years leading two incentive research foundations, first the Site Foundation and then the Incentive Research Foundation, IRF President Frank Katusak has decided to step down and the search for a new leader has begun....
Convention Industry Council's 2010 Hall of Leaders Gala
The 16th Hall of Leaders Gala, the Convention Industry Council’s celebration of the meetings industry’s most influential people, will take place on Monday, January 11, at the Fairmont Dallas...
Check In with Barbara Scofidio: 2010: No Doom, Just Gloom
As we desperately try to distance ourselves from what has been—by far—the most punishing year the meetings and incentives industry has ever known, I’d like to share my predictions about what lies ahead...
Commentary: A Turkey in Dubai
While a large part of the North American meetings industry went silent last week as attention turned to turkey, trimmings, and a weekend of shopping, events half a world away showed how quickly a new, unexpected threat to meetings or destinations can burst onto the scene....
What the Distressed Hotel Market Means for Meetings
Hundreds of hotels around the country are struggling to survive in the down economy, and the trend has serious implications for meetings and meeting contracts....
Disney: New Cruise Ships, Theme Park, Resorts, and a Whole Lot More
With the unveiling of details for Disney's newest cruise ship, the Disney Dream, and the green light for a new theme park in Shanghai, China, meeting professionals have plenty to look forward to from Disney...
Top 10 Takeaways from 2009 FICP Annual Conference
Whether or not you're a member of Financial & Insurance Conference Planners, you'll still want to check out our top 10 takeaways from FICP's Annual Conference...
2010: Looking Ahead
In the meetings space, reports of the effects of the economy in '09 - and its potential impact on 2010 - vary according to whom you talk to - or even more precisely, what industry they're in...
New Hyatt Regency Brings Championship Golf to Curaçao
Once it opens on January 19, 2010, the new 350-room Hyatt Regency Curaçao Golf Resort, Spa and Marina will allow groups to mix business with pleasure...
Golf Resort Update
Golf resorts news and updates from around the country and world...
AIBTM Announces America Meetings Week Program
The Americas Incentive, Business Travel and Meetings Exhibition, the newest addition to Reed Travel Exhibitions’ stable of worldwide travel trade shows, has announced an America Meetings Week program to run concurrently with the exhibition, launching June 21-23, 2011, at the Baltimore Convention Center...
On Location
Disneyland Meetings: Make the Most of Your Time
Those of us who live on the East Coast are more inclined to think of Florida rather than California when considering a Disney visit. But planners from all regions take note: Disneyland, Walt Disney’s original theme park, located in Anaheim...
FICP Announces New Leadership
Financial & Insurance Conference Planners outgoing president Cindy Wheaton of Nationwide Financial Network passed the gavel to new president Dan Young of Thrivent Financial....
FICP Picks L.A. Live for 2012
At the Financial & Insurance Conference Planners in Toronto this week, association leaders announced FICP's meeting site for 2012: the L.A. Live and the JW Marriott at L.A. Live...
Post Con: Kim Boriin, CMP
Kim Boriin, CMP, event marketing specialist, Guardian Investor Services LLC, New York, N.Y., author of The Green Boriin blog...
Herbalife: This Company Knows How to Throw a Party
The economy hasn't affected special events in the direct-selling industry. Just ask Herbalife's Margaret Launzel-Pennes...
Commentary: Live or Virtual? Stem Cell Charter uses the Best of Both
It was launched at a face-to-face meeting, but built its momentum through a two-day online rally that attracted a small wave of attention from across North America and beyond...
Pfizer-Wyeth Merger Rolls Forward; Meetings Casualties Still Uncertain
Pfizer completed its $67 billion acquisition of one-time-competitor Wyeth Pharmaceuticals on October 15, just one in a string of recent mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical industry. (Think Merck’s November 3 merger with Schering-Plough and Genentech’s March 26 deal with Roche.) According to a variety of sources, plans are already in place to merge the companies’ meetings teams, but Pfizer representatives are staying very close-lipped about the process, and so far, there are more questions than answers. ...
Mood at FICP: Partnership and Cautious Optimism
The Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Annual Conference opened this week at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel with a general session that looked at the effects of the long recession on both sides of the meetings business. ...
J.D. Power European Rankings: Who’s the Crème de la Crème?
For the fifth year, J.D. Power and Associates has ranked European hotels in four levels, based on guest satisfaction surveys. See who's on top...
Will You Get Screened? What You Need to Know about H1N1 and International Travel
The H1N1 flu pandemic has prompted some countries to implement screening procedures at airports for international travelers. The U.S. Department of State has issued an alert to U.S. citizens about what they might expect....
If You Have Attendees From Overseas, Get to Know ESTA
Meeting planners should get to know the U.S. Electronic System for Travel Authorization program, says Helen Marano, director, tourism industries at the U.S. Office of Travel and Tourism in Washington...
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