Los Cabos: Second Safest State in Mexico
Los Cabos comprises two small and very different towns—lively Cabo San Lucas and laid-back San Jose del Cabo—that are joined by a 20-mile corridor of seaside resorts. The area is in the midst of many new developments and upgrades...
Meeting in Mexico: Tips, Advice from the Meeting Pros
Official warnings about travel to Mexico because of the H1N1 virus have been lifted. And tourism officials are doing all they can to show meeting planners why Mexico belongs back on their short lists of meeting sites...
MPI to Meeting Planners: Get Down to Business
Speakers set a more subdued tone than in past years at the opening general session of Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference on Sunday...
New Tool for Finding Green Meeting Suppliers
Green Meeting Industry Council has launched an online directory to help planners search for suppliers that are focused on environmentally responsible business practices...
Cities Turn Workers into Tourism Ambassadors
The Certified Tourism Ambassador program, launched in 2006 on the premise that the best way to market a destination is through its people, recently certified its 5,000th travel-industry worker...
Green Meetings Group Announces Oregon Chapter
The Green Meeting Industry Council is growing. The nonprofit organization has launched its first official affiliate organization, the GMIC Oregon Chapter, led by Megan Rooksby, American Express Corporate Meeting Solution...
Marriott and Starwood Announce Pay-Per-Use Telepresence
Having first explored the market for pay-per-use telepresence videoconferencing suites last fall, Cisco Systems last week announced a more extensive rollout of its technology in select hotels...
Mobile Tech Tools for Meetings and Trade Shows
The advent of the iPhone two years ago was a game-shifter. Rich mobile Web browsers with wireless broadband Internet access (in the iPhone and its multitude of clones) are now in the pockets or purses of most business travelers...
MPI Rolls Out Virtual Pass for July World Education Conference
Last week, with less than two weeks to go before its World Education Conference, Meeting Professionals International rolled out a Virtual Access Pass,” which allows members and nonmembers to sign up for a parallel online conference...
PCMA and ACTE Form Strategic Alliance
After two years of consulting with each other on the content for their annual meetings, the Professional Convention Management Association and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives announced plans for a strategic alliance...
Airlines Add Fees on Top of Fees
Airlines, in a seemingly never-ending bid to supplement their revenues, are adding yet again to an already dizzying array of fees...
Starwood Points Become Cash for PCMA Members
The Professional Convention Management Association has teamed up with Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide to offer a program that allows PCMA members to use Starpoints toward the purchase of PCMA offerings...
Marketing Gets Creative in Vegas and Indy
Two top destinations have put noteworthy twists on their marketing campaigns aimed at meeting executives...
The Active Network Unveils New “OnDemand” Event Management Tools
The Active Network Inc. has released ActiveEvents OnDemand, a scalable, Web-based event management solution for meeting professionals...
StarCite and Starwood Strike Partnership
Starwood Hotels & Resorts and StarCite, the Philadelphia-based meeting technology company, have agreed on a new partnership that will allow meeting planner’s electronic requests for proposal sent from StarCite’s online marketplace to directly connect with Starwood’s sales automation system...
E-Business Card Device to Be Put to the Test
Mingle360’s handheld networking tool, MingleStick, has been generating some buzz since it debuted last year, but its most significant introduction to the meetings industry may be next month at TS2...
Half Full: FICP Members Look to 2010 with Optimism
When the planning committee for this year’s Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Education Forum came up with the theme “Changemakers: Moving Mountains,” they perfectly described the challenges faced by members in recent months...
NBTA-ACTE Merger Talks Illustrate Meetings Associations’ Challenges
The board of the directors of the National Business Travel Association voted last week to continue to pursue a merger with the Association of Corporate Travel Executives...
Administration Officials “Tuned In” to Meetings
The meetings industry has gotten the attention of the Obama administration and has a strong supporter in Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, according to a high-ranking official with the U.S. Office of Travel and Tourism Industries...
Face of Travel Winner Announced
"I can now say it—I am Paco and I am the face of travel!" That was a Twitter post from Paco Saldaña just before noon eastern time today...
Green Is as Green Does: The IMEX Awards
The 2009 IMEX exhibition, showcasing incentive travel, meetings, and event suppliers from around the globe, wrapped up at the end of May in Frankfurt, Germany...
Blowing Our Horn
Corporate Meetings & Incentives has won a national American Society of Business Press Editors award for its February 2008 cover story, "Surviving Six Sigma"...
NBTA Seeks Collaboration With Other Industry Associations
The National Business Travel Association, Alexandria, Va., has recently been in talks with two industry associations: Meeting Professionals International and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives...
New Treasury Rules: Meetings Dodge a Bullet
The meetings and travel industry was generally hailing the new executive compensation rules issued by the U.S. Treasury Department on June 10...
SMMP Tech Consultancy Launches
Here’s the word from a bona fide meetings technology expert: Don’t rush out and buy meetings technology...
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