More CVBs Adopt National Sales Approach
An innovative sales strategy for convention bureaus is taking root. ...
Enhanced Drivers’ Licenses WHTI-Compliant
Enhanced drivers’ licenses will be an acceptable form of identification when the land and sea phase of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative goes into effect next year...
Survey Says Americans Want Candidates to Address Travel Issues
It’s not Iraq, immigration, or healthcare, but travel and tourism is a serious issue to presidential primary voters, according to a new survey, and one that voters would like to see the 2008 presidential candidates address on the campaign trail....
On Location: Hyatt Regency Indianapolis
As part of a $13 million renovation, the Hyatt Regency Indianapolis has added 10,000 square feet of meeting space, including a new ballroom, a restaurant, and a lounge, and made major improvements and modernizations to its lobby...
Largest Pillar-Free Resort Ballroom in U.S. Premieres
Billed as the “largest Marriott on Earth,” the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort & Convention Center now boasts the largest pillar-free resort ballroom in the U.S...
Travel Industry Organizations to Merge
Three travel industry organizations, including the Travel Industry Association, are merging into a single, not yet named, new entity...
JetBlue Implements New Phase of Meetings Product
While many airlines have discontinued or reduced their meetings products, JetBlue is expanding its program, CompanyBlue Meetings, launched earlier this year...
Hilton to Build Headquarters Hotel at Broward Convention Center
The Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is getting closer to securing a headquarters hotel, something the convention center has been missing since 1989. On November 1, a panel of 10, including eight county commissioners, selected Hilton Hotels Corp. over Marriott International Inc. to build...
The Four S’s and ESG
You’ve heard of the three R’s: reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic. Well, the meetings industry has some fundamentals, too, and you can learn about them at a virtual classroom for the industry’s accepted practices exchange initiative, or APEX...
CME Certification Moves Forward
In the face of increasing government, public, and media scrutiny, continuing medical education professionals must demonstrate competence in developing effective and independent programs for physicians...
MPI Roundup: Planning for the Dems, Asia Office, More
On November 15, meeting professionals of all political stripes will come together in Denver to discuss the opportunities and challenges of next summer’s Democratic National Convention, which is expected to draw 35,000 delegates, politicians, members of the media, and political junkies to the region from August 25 to 28...
Attendance, Revenues Spike, Says CEIR Index
All key exhibition industry metrics rose in the second quarter, including the biggest gainers, revenue and attendance, according to the Center for Exhibition Industry Research’s CEIR Index...
San Diego “Open for Business”
While wildfires raged around San Diego last week, the San Diego Convention Center remained—and remains—“open for business,” according to Steve Johnson, vice president of public affairs for the San Diego Convention Center Corp...
Business Travel, Meeting Costs to Rise in 2008
Business travel costs will continue to rise in 2008, according to the annual American Express Global Business Travel Forecast, which was released last week...
Four Tips for Fewer Travel Troubles
With airport security hassles and overcrowded flights a fact of life for on-the-go meeting professionals and their attendees, we caught up with Peter Greenberg, travel editor for NBC’s “The Today Show"...
White Paper on Global Consolidation by Advito
MPI-CAC to Host Women’s Leadership Conference
Meeting Professionals International Chicago Area Chapter is holding a daylong conference dedicated to addressing issues facing female leaders. The 2007 MPI-CAC Women's Leadership Conference—geared toward full- and part-time meeting planners...
Update: K.C. Convention Kaput
The country’s largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy group has pulled its 2009 annual convention out of Kansas City...
Green Power
Kim Boriin, CMP, is greening his hotel contracts. The senior events marketing specialist at Guardian Investor Services LLC, New York, now has a clause “saying that we are concerned with sustainable business practices and want to know that you are, too.”...
Winning Meeting Technology Announced
SpotMe 2, a handheld multifunction meeting gadget, has grabbed first place in the WorldWide Technology Watch competition, an annual contest run by EIBTM, the international meeting and incentive exhibition...
Maritz Travel Earns Data Security Certification
In an effort to assure customers that its business processes and data security are top shelf and comply with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations, Maritz Travel has completed the SAS70 Type II examination for its Strategic Meetings Management business...
K.C. May Lose Conventions Over Minutemen Controversy
This past summer, Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser appointed Frances Semler to the Kansas City Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners. But to associations like the National Council of La Raza and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the story is more complicated...
Trade Show News on TV
BD Metrics wants to help trade show organizers catch up with the “YouTube effect” by offering TradeshowTV, a product that allows them to set up their own CNN-type news desk to broadcast show news from their organization’s Web site...
Shangri-La Expands to North America, Europe
Meeting and incentive groups who recognize Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts as Asia’s leading luxury hotel group don’t have too much longer to wait for the brand to debut in North America and Europe. In 2008, the first Canadian property will open in...
Unions Settle with Vegas Hilton, Set Deadlines for Remaining Hotels
The Culinary Workers Local 226 and the Bartenders Union Local 165, both based in Las Vegas, agreed to a five-year collective bargaining agreement with the Las Vegas Hilton, a major convention property in the city...
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