Global Events Partners Acquires Atlanta Arrangements, Appoints GEP Utah CEO
Global Events Partners, a partnership of destination management companies, announced it has acquired Atlanta Arrangements Inc., a DMC that has been operating in Atlanta for 40 years...
Marriott Adds Online Training for Third-Party Planners
Marriott International launched a new online training program for third-party meeting planners this week called Meetings Excellence!, which earns planners certification as a “Marriott Meeting Professional.” ...
Massachusetts Law Hits Medical Conventions
Pending legislation in Massachusetts that would ban gifts and giveaways at medical conventions and restrict pharmaceutical and medical device company marketing practices has caused at least one medical society to cancel a meeting in Boston and several others to scratch Boston off their lists of potential meeting sites....
Cleveland Picks Site for New Convention Center
After months of debate over the location of Cleveland’s new convention center and medical mart, Cuyahoga County commissioners and Merchandise Mart Properties Inc., the project's private-sector developer, announced last week that they would build the new development at the site of the current city-owned convention center site and its adjacent green space in downtown Cleveland....
CMI¹s 2009 Online Focus Group
CMI¹s 2009 Online Focus Group...
Making Connections in Europe, Australia
There’s a new conference taking place in Europe that promises to offer an effective platform for sharing the trends and challenges in the meetings industry. ...
Hedging Bets on Airfare
One of the responsibilities of a good meeting manager or corporate travel buyer is making informed buying decisions when it comes to air travel. ...
Survey Shows Explosive Growth for Virtual Events in 2009
ON24 Inc., a supplier of webcasting and virtual-event solutions, last week released the results of an online survey it conducted in December of more than 300 enterprise business executives about their plans to attend or host live trade shows, conventions, and sales training seminars in 2009 versus their use of virtual events....
Airlines and the Economy: Hot Topics at PCMA
They may not be able to get you out of the dreaded middle seat, but the heads of two major airlines, speaking at the recent Professional Convention Management Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, told meeting planners that they want to help get their attendees to their next meeting. ...
New Look for Site, New Leadership at iSite
For the first time in many years, Site (formerly known as the Society of Incentive & Travel Executives) is rebranding, with a new look and message. ...
Industry to Work Together to Prove Power of Meetings
Leaders from across the meetings industry gathered Monday in New Orleans to launch an advocacy and research initiative to determine the economic impact of the meetings industry. ...
New Online Application Required for Certain Overseas Visitors
As of yesterday, January 12, all nationals and citizens of Visa Waiver Program countries are required by law to obtain a travel authorization prior to traveling to the U.S., instead of filling out paper forms at the airport. ...
Sneak Peak: FutureWatch 2009
The preliminary results from Meeting Professionals International’s annual membership survey, FutureWatch 2009, are in—and all signs point to meetings taking a beating in the year ahead. ...
A Golf Mecca in the Riviera Maya
When Jack Nicklaus first started coming to Cancun and the Riviera Maya, he recognized two characteristics that would make that part of Mexico’s Yucatan ideal for golf. ...
San Diego Boycott Ongoing, but Effect “Negligible”
An ongoing boycott of the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego has led to the loss of some group business, according to a hotel spokesman....
2009 Paragon Awards
Once again Corporate Meetings & Incentives asked readers which hotels, resorts, and conference centers had best handled their meetings and incentive programs during the past year. Hotels were evaluated on the meeting services' quality, and resorts were judged on atmosphere, services, and recreational amenities. Conference centers (which must be members of the International Association of Conference Centers or deemed the equivalent by our editors) were judged on their facilities, equipment, and meetings services....
Charter Logic
Amid the commercial airline chaos, charter operators and brokers have sharpened their focus on the corporate meeting and incentive market. The result is twofold: First, the network for gathering information on charter operators has improved; and second, the number and variety of planes available for private use has mushroomed such that, when planned properly, using a charter is not prohibitively expensive....
Barter for Meetings
Why not take your company’s excess inventory and iuse it to pay for hotel and meeting space? In tough economic times, barter can be a smart solution. ...
Deep Cutbacks for 2009 Incentives
Our reader research revealed changing destinations, shrinking budgets, and disappearing amenities—and that’s just the start...
In the Clink
One of Boston’s hottest new spots, The Liberty Hotel is carved out of the city’s infamous Charles Street Jail...
An Analysis of the Economy’s Impact on Meetings and Incentives by Market Segment
MeetingsNet magazines conducted online surveys/polls of readers to gauge the effects of the economic downturn on their meetings and incentives. ...
Site Celebrates the 2008 Crystals
During its international conference last week in Montreux, Switzerland, Site awarded the highest of honors in the incentive industry—the Crystal Awards—to 15 companies....
Asia Travel Surveys: Pullback on India, China Shines Bright
In early December, two weeks after the Mumbai terrorist attacks, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives announced the results of a survey showing a natural disinclination to send business travelers to India and Pakistan in the short term as well as for travel managers and meeting managers to step up their reviews of safety and security at hotels in the region....
DMCs See Challenges, Show Cautious Optimism
Global Events Partners, representing more than 70 destination management companies around the world, announced the results of its annual DMC partner survey last week, reflecting economic concerns globally. ...
Copper Skillet: Flavorful IACC Event Planned for January
Don’t miss the International Association of Conference Centers Copper Skillet Combo, an entertaining educational event, set for January 15 at the new Culinary Conference Center at Hudson County Community College in Jersey City, N.J. ...
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