CME Pros Celebrate New Certification Program
It took three years and more than 70 volunteers working thousands of hours, but now the continuing medical education profession has its first certification program. ...
Do Canceled Incentives Have Legal Consequences?
AIG’s recent decision to cancel 160 meetings and conferences, including recognition events, begs the question: Does a company have a legal obligation to provide alternative rewards to the qualifiers of canceled incentive trips?...
Travel Industry: On Tap for Obama
Roger Dow, president and CEO of the Travel Industry Association, is among the travel and tourism industry leaders expressing willingness to help U.S. President-elect Barack Obama understand the industry’s importance to economic recovery. ...
OP-ED: Saving the Economy Through Meetings
Bruce M. MacMillan, CA, president and CEO of Meeting Professionals International, sent his thoughts on the intersection of meetings and the global financial crisis to the trade press and mainstream media. ...
The CMI 25 Takes a Bow
On September 21, 2008, the evening before The Motivation Show opened, Corporate Meetings & Incentives’ editors honored the 2008 CMI 25—the magazine’s list of the largest and most influential meeting and incentive companies—at an exclusive reception held at Fulton’s on the River in downtown Chicago. As a whole, the CMI 25 companies booked more than 29,800 corporate meetings and incentives last year, which represented more than 5.5 million room nights. Representatives from the top companies mingled with the magazine’s readers and event sponsors at what has become one of the show’s most exclusive private parties ...
Executive Retreat Planner: Content Rules
Corporate retreats are about the agenda, not the logistics. An interview with Bob Frisch, managing partner of The Strategic Offsites Group LLC, Boston....
Motivation Show 2008
Our editors scoured the trade show to find hot destination developments. ...
Airline Forecast ‘09
For 2009 and beyond, planners will need all the help they can get even to find sufficient airlift, let alone get their people in and out on time, without hassle, and within budget. If you are planning 6 or 9 months out, how can you be sure a destination is still going to work for you as the meeting draws closer? ...
Experient Names New VP of Sales and Marketing
Experient, the Twinsburg, Ohio–based meeting and event services provider, has named Rick Binford, CMP, to the role of executive vice president sales and marketing—the company’s top sales leadership position....
Meeting Cancellations: Flexibility for Some in Today’s Market
After American International Group’s cancellation of about 160 meetings, the question on the minds of many meetings industry observers is: How much will the company pay in cancellation fees for backing out of the events—estimated by AIG to be worth about $8 million?...
How Green Is Your Meeting Destination?
Meeting Strategies Worldwide Inc., a Portland, Ore.–based environmental consulting company specializing in the meetings industry, has launched a new Web site designed to help planners select green destinations for their groups....
AMEX Business Travel Forecast: More Scrutiny Ahead
According to the annual “Global Business Travel Forecast and Trends” report, released October 22 by American Express Business Travel, airfares likely will decrease and hotel rates will hold relatively steady—but whatever happens in the air or on the ground, meeting managers can expect more scrutiny as corporations continue to crack down on meetings spend....
NBTA’s New Survey Sees Meetings in Danger
Recent airfare increases and the economic downturn are having an effect on corporate meetings and conventions...
Wall Street Woes Put Incentives Under Pressure
Most players in the besieged financial services industry have avoided the kind of public relations disaster experienced by American International Group for its ill-timed incentive program, which eventually resulted in the cancellation of 160 company meetings worth about $8 million....
AIG Cancels $8 Million Worth of Meetings in Agreement with NY A.G. Cuomo
Just days after insurance behemoth American International Group announced that it was being rescued by an $85 billion loan from the Federal Reserve, top-producing agents were checking into the luxury St. Regis Resort, Monarch Beach (Calif.), for a recognition event sponsored by AIG. When news of the conference broke, commentators had a field day and AIG found itself in a public relations nightmare. White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, for example, called AIG “despicable.”...
Cisco Launches Pay-per-Use Videoconferencing
Cisco Systems Inc. has begun renting videoconferencing rooms to the public for one-off meetings, aiming to introduce its high-definition TelePresence conferencing system to small and midsize companies....
Mexico: Get Your VAT Back
“This is an added value for the meeting and incentive market that we have been working on for five years,” says Hannan Zanzuri, CEO, Tax Back Mexico. ...
EIBTM Offers Education Plus
With the most comprehensive seminar program in its history, EIBTM will take place December 2-4 at the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona....
Mitchell's Outlook: Airfares Stabilize, Routes Disappear, Fees Are Here to Stay
One silver lining to the dark economic cloud is that the growing credit crisis and resulting travel cutbacks at many companies is likely to end the upward creep in airline fares, says Kevin Mitchell, chairman of the Business Travel Coalition, a Radnor, Pa., organization seeking to influence policy on issues affecting business travelers. ...
New Meetings Industry Event Launched
A new trade show for the U.S. meetings and incentives market will debut in Baltimore in 2010: the Americas Incentive Business Travel and Meetings Exhibition....
Planners and Hotels Cautious in Crisis, DMAI Chairwoman Says
“It’s chaos right now. Every day is a new adventure. There’s nothing in the handbook about weathering an economic downtown, in an election year, with a war on. It’s just a very different time,” says Maura Gast, executive director at the Irving [Texas] Convention and Visitors Bureau....
AIG Cancels Event in Face of Criticism
After several days of being heavily criticized for holding a lavish incentive travel program just days after receiving an $85 billion loan from the federal government, AIG today canceled an upcoming incentive program at the Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay in California and announced that it is reviewing all of its meetings....
MPI Selects Host Cities for Upcoming Meetings
Meeting Professionals International has announced the dates and locations for its upcoming World Education Congresses through 2013 and for its MeetDifferent conferences (formerly MPI’s Professional Education Conference-North America) through 2010....
FICP Counsels Calm in the Crisis
Financial & Insurance Conference Planners has issued a special report to members, advising them to be calm—and creative—in response to the crisis on Wall Street and within financial services companies....
Financial Fallout: More Negotiating Clout for Planners?
In the wake of the financial crisis, future hotel development will slow to a crawl and we’re likely to see a significant slowdown in all types of travel, says Sean Hennessey, CEO of Lodging Advisors LLC, a hotel consulting company in New York City....
Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | Next
Advertisement
Advertisement
Sign Up for Our Free E-Newsletters
Meetings Collaborative
Rate your experience with meeting venues and suppliers.
| Powered by: Meetings Collaborative | |
Latest Webinar
Global Meetings: Risk Management A to ZFebruary 28 | 2p.m. EST
Organizations take on more risk than usual when booking meetings outside the U.S. Join our expert panelists and learn how to assess your overall risk, write contracts that protect your organization, manage currency exchange rate fluctuations, keep your travelers safe, and much more.
View it on-demand now!
VIEW ALL ARCHIVED WEBINARS
Advertisement
