Using Virtual Technologies to Enhance Face-to-Face Meetings: A Free Webinar
Learn the language of videoconferencing, the kinds of meetings and events best suited to it, and the economies of different types of virtual technology in a free webinar organized by MeetingsNet on Tuesday, September 29, at 2 p.m. eastern time...
CIC Adds Voice to Meeting Industry PR Efforts
The Convention Industry Council has launched a public messaging task force to improve the image of meetings, the latest industry effort to battle the negative public perception of events and business travel...
Amsterdam RAI Center Offers Green Events; Opens New Sustainable Building
Exhibition and conference organizers headed to Amsterdam are now able to link up with Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre for help making their events at the convention center carbon-neutral...
Travel Promotion Act Gets Overwhelming Senate OK
A U.S. Senate vote has moved the Travel Promotion Act one step closer to becoming law...
BTC Shifts Position, Now Supports Oversight for Delayed Flights
The Business Travel Coalition has joined forces with nonprofit advocacy group FlyersRights.org to support passenger-rights legislation allowing airline passengers on domestic flights on U.S. carriers the option to exit an aircraft that has been delayed at least three hours on the tarmac...
New Global Meeting Fares Program
A new discount fare product for meetings has been rolled out by the Star Alliance, a network of 24 airlines around the globe, including United Airlines, US Airways, Lufthansa, Air Canada, and Singapore Airlines...
H1N1: Ready or Not, Here it Comes
(Second of a two-part series) How should our industry respond to an emerging threat of uncertain severity? The same way we address any other contingency that jeopardizes the success of a meeting or the health and safety of participants ...
Execs Agree: For Reaching Critical Business Goals, Face-to-Face Meetings Are Best
When the goals of a meeting include persuasion, leadership, engagement, inspiration, decision-making, accountability, or candor, U.S. business executives overwhelmingly believe that holding a face-to-face gathering is the only way to go...
Unite Here Hotel Contracts Expire in Three Major Cities
Union contracts expired at 62 hotels in San Francisco on August 14, at 37 hotels in Chicago on August 31 at midnight, and are scheduled for renewal at a number of Los Angeles hotels in November...
H1N1: Ignore at Your Own Risk
(First of a two-part series) This fall’s influenza season will almost certainly bring a serious outbreak of H1N1, the novel virus also known as swine flu...
Lutherans Meeting In Minneapolis Convention Center During Tornado Strike
A tornado that struck downtown Minneapolis August 19 caused an estimated $350,000 to $500,000 worth of damage to the Minneapolis Convention Center, according to Meet Minneapolis...
Face to Face or Screen to Screen? AmEx Tool Helps Travelers Choose, Offers Booking of Virtual Meetings
When a business traveler, corporate travel manager, or meeting planner is at the point of booking travel, a new tool, Virtual Meetings Expert, from American Express, assesses certain trip data...
NBTA Poised to Take Off Under New Leadership
While other associations struggle to draw attendees to their events, the National Business Travel Association is holding the third-largest convention in its history this week in San Diego...
New Study to Show the ROI of Business Travel to Corporate America
On September 15, the U.S. Travel Association will announce the results of an Oxford Economics study that focuses on the return on investment of all types of business travel...
Are You Prepared for Transition Time?
Our industry is in the midst of some wrenching changes, but a much deeper transition is just over the horizon...
2009 Motivation Show Preview
The overarching theme of the incentive industry’s major show is also the industry’s newest buzzword: engagement...
International Destinations Gaining Business Travelers Faster than U.S., Study Says
The National Business Travel Association and Egencia, the corporate travel arm of Expedia Inc., have released findings from a new study that quantifies global business travel spend and projects business travel growth through 2013...
Green Meetings Standards: Call to Action
The Convention Industry Council’s Accepted Practices Exchange Panel on Green Meeting and Event Practices has released the final draft of its green meetings standards and is now encouraging review and comment by the meetings industry...
The Wall: Sending a Message to the President
There was something new and exciting going on last month during the trade show at the 2009 World Education Congress in Salt Lake City, organized by Meeting Professionals International...
Global Entry Program Expands to 13 More Airports
On August 24, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will add 13 airports to its Global Entry pilot program, which streamlines the arrival process for enrolled U.S. travelers returning from international destinations...
Deadline Near for Major Meeting Technology Competition
The call for entries for the WorldWide Technology Watch 2009 closes on September 4...
New Meeting RFP/Management Software to Launch Pro Version
By the end of the month, Meeting Evolution plans to launch the Professional version of its request for proposal and meeting management software...
BusyEvent Gets a Bullseye at Technology Shootout
BusyEvent, a conference networking tool, won the Technology Shootout at the Corporate Event Marketing Association Summit...
ACTE-NBTA Merger Talks Back on the Table
The Association of Corporate Travel Executives has reopened merger talks with the National Business Travel Association, delivering to NBTA last week a broad outline of the proposed merger...
Hyatt Hotels to Go Public
Chicago-based Hyatt Hotels Corp. announced on August 5th that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public stock offering...
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