Mexicans Now Need Visas to Travel to Canada
The Canadian border has become a little tighter, with a new rule requiring Mexican and Czech citizens entering Canada to have a visa...
TTG Merges with Ambassadors
The investor who purchased Ambassadors International’s travel and events division in April is also the majority stakeholder in Chicago-based event housing and travel services company Travel Technology Group, LLC...
Pittsburgh Prepares for G20 Summit
The power of meetings will be on full display in Pittsburgh this September when leaders from the world’s 20 largest countries convene for the G20 Summit...
An Unexpected Eulogy
Never in a million years did I expect to write a eulogy for Concepts Worldwide, the iconic meeting management firm that Terri Breining launched in San Diego County more than 21 years ago...
Legislation Introduced to Protect Meetings at Resorts
On July 29, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.. introduced a bill into Congress, The Protecting Resort Cities from Discrimination Act of 2009...
Hyatt's New Offerings: Meet More, Pay Less
During the general session at Hyatt Hotels and Resorts' 2009 Insurance and Financial Business Exchange in late July, Gus Vonderheide briefed attendees on the company’s new initiatives and hotel openings...
Economist to Financial and Insurance Meeting Planners: Recovery Is Near
The economic crisis was still top of mind for financial and insurance meeting planners who attended Hyatt Hotels and Resorts' 2009 Insurance and Financial Business Exchange...
Group Room Rates Higher Than Transient Rates
Through the first half of the year, group customers are paying a higher average daily rate in the top 25 markets than transient hotel guests, according to Smith Travel Research...
Breining Shutters Concepts Worldwide
Concepts Worldwide Inc., the Carlsbad, Calif.–based independent meeting planning company launched by Terri Breining, CMP, CMM, more than 21 years ago, is closing...
Congress Considers Raising Deduction for Business Meals
Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) has reintroduced a bill to restore the 80 percent deduction for business meals and entertainment expenses...
Updated Model Meetings Policy Among U.S. Travel Resources
U.S. Treasury Department regulations issued this spring require boards of directors of companies receiving bailout funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program to establish companywide policies for luxury expenditures...
Senate Committee Passes FAA Act—Includes Passenger Bill of Rights Provisions
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has passed the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2009, which includes passenger bill of rights provisions and language that will accelerate the implementation of a next-generation traffic control system...
Hidden Camera Feeds Attack on Government Meeting
A television news crew used a hidden camera to record the closing minutes of a two-day training workshop held earlier this month by the U.S. Social Security Administration...
New Game Plan for Greenbrier Resort
The historic Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.V., is opening a casino. Voters in Greenbrier County, W.V., narrowly passed a referendum last November...
MPI Sets Aggressive Education Agenda
At Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference, association officials announced the opening of MPI Global Training Centers at San Diego State University, CERAM Business School on the French Riviera, and Qatar Mice Development Institute in Qatar...
Industry Loses Joe Durocher, Friend and Teacher
Joseph F. Durocher, 61, Nottingham, N.H., associate professor of Hospitality Management at the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics, Durham, N.H., lost his courageous battle with cancer on Saturday, July 18...
MPI Replaces Trade Show with Hosted Buyer Program
Meeting Professionals International has created a modified hosted-buyer program for its annual conference, MeetDifferent, scheduled for February 20–23 at Moon Palace in Cancun, Mexico...
No Suspects Named in Florida Meeting Executive’s Murder
olice are still investigating the murder last week of meeting industry veteran Ben Novack, Jr...
Maritz Inks Deal With Freeman
Maritz Travel Co. continues to build alliances, as evidenced by the recent announcement that it has partnered with Freeman as its preferred provider of audiovisual, multimedia, and creative services...
How to Register Your Company's Meetings
Create the guidelines and get a process in motion...
Barbara Scofidio's Check In: SMM For All
SMM: strategic meetings management. It’s an acronym with roots that stretch back to October 2003...
Bob Nelson’s Motivation Matters: Pfizer Runs with Employee Idea to Help the Unemployed
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc., New York, N.Y., recently announced that it will offer its medicines for free to unemployed Americans and their families who have lost health insurance...
Meet Different and Get an Incredible Deal
When staff of Meeting Professionals International chose Cancun, Mexico, for the association’s 2010 MeetDifferent conference, it had many hotel options from which to choose. After several site inspections...
Acapulco: On Top of Safety
You can’t ignore the reports of violence in Acapulco. But you should get all the facts...
Does Mexico Still Motivate? Yes, When You Educate Attendees
The incentive conference had been booked for two years at a resort in Cancun. Then reports of violence related to drug trafficking in Mexico began to surface, and then increase...
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