ASAE Announces Multicity Social Responsibility Summit
At its annual meeting this week in Chicago, ASAE and the Center for Association Leadership announced the formation of a new meeting, the Global Summit on Social Responsibility...
Policy Mandates Are Coming
Corporations are putting a higher priority on mandating that employees use business travel booking policies, according to BCD Travel’s 2007 Annual Client Benchmark Survey—a trend that is also creeping into meetings and incentive travel policy. ...
VWP Expands, ETA Implemented
President George W. Bush has signed legislation that includes provisions designed to extend and strengthen the Visa Waiver Program...
Minneapolis CVB Responds to Tragic Bridge Collapse
Meet Minneapolis, the official convention and visitors association of the city of Minneapolis, has issued a statement acknowledging the tragic collapse of the city’s 35W bridge that carried the main north-south highway through Minneapolis...
Las Vegas Union Sets Strike Vote Date
The roughly 30,000 culinary workers in Las Vegas who have been working without a contract since June 1st will soon vote on whether or not to strike....
TSA Changes Carry-On Screening Policy
The Transportation Security Administration has changed its x-ray screening policy for certain electronic items, and, if first reports are any indication, travelers trying to bring their electronics through airport security checkpoints could be in for a confusing time...
BTC Survey Finds Business Travelers Eager For RT
A Business Travel Coalition survey has found that 82 percent of survey participants want to see the airlines they do business with “embrace” the Registered Traveler program...
APEX Recommends Format for Meeting Contracts
Key findings from the APEX contracts report, released earlier this year by the Convention Industry Council’s Accepted Practices Exchange initiative, came to light at a recent webinar. The report recommends industry best practices for handling attrition and other contracting challenges, establishes guidelines on how to format a meetings contract, and creates standard definitions of meeting contract terminology and clauses...
New David Riddell Memorial Scholarship
The Society of Incentive & Travel Executives and Marriott Individual Incentives have announced a new scholarship program in honor of David Riddell, Marriott International’s vice president of incentive and gift card marketing, who died last summer....
Confronted, JetBlue Backs Away from Convention Sponsorship
After public criticism from conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly about its sponsorship of a convention of left-wing bloggers, JetBlue Airways relented—sort of....
Maritz Launches New Solution to Quantify Meetings ROI
In a webcast July 25, Maritz announced the launch of its Meetings Effectiveness solution, a new approach to quantifying and improving the value of meetings and events...
Report From MPI-WEC, Montréal
Bruce MacMillan, CA, president and CEO of Meeting Professionals International, welcomed more than 3,700 attendees to MPI’s World Education Conference à la Montréal during Sunday’s opening general session....
Registered Traveler Expanding Quickly
Registered Traveler programs will be in place at 20 to 30 U.S. airports by the end of this year, and 50 airports by the end of 2008, predict executives from FLO Corp., one of five RT companies vying to capture their share of this burgeoning industry....
New alliance between VISA and Arcaneo
Today, strategic meeting management technologies have a low-tech side...
StarCite Launches Orbitz Alliance
By the first quarter of 2008, StarCite expects to have a new travel booking feature: a direct link to Orbitz for Business and Travelport for Business from its attendee-management application....
The Seller’s Market Strikes Again
Unless Osram Sylvania Inc. can get some quick relief from a Florida court, it’s going to have to find a different location for its national sales meeting, booked for October....
Cities Step Up to Become Accredited
Destination Marketing Association International (the former International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus) held its annual convention in Pittsburgh last week, where leadership announced several items of note for meeting planners....
New Accreditation Program for DMCs
The Association of Destination Management Executives, Dayton, Ohio, is rolling out a new accreditation program for destination management companies...
MPI Names 2007-2008 Board of Directors
Meeting Professionals International 2007-2008 leadership assumed their roles July 1, bringing in a board of directors led by Angie Pfeifer, CMM, assistant vice president, corporate meetings, travel and incentives, Investors Group Financial Services Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba. ...
Que SIRA, SIRA
When the NASD/NYSE Member Regulation merger is completed, two things are sure. The group will have regulatory authority over financial services firms’ practices relating to, among other things, meetings and education/training seminars, and it will not be called SIRA (Securities Industry Regulatory Authority), the name selected in June....
Getting the Royal Treatment
There are plenty of more modern activities for groups to enjoy in Scotland. ...
Education Raises the Bar at FICP Forum
A packed educational agenda drew a record-breaking 176 planners and hospitality partners to the Financial and Insurance Conference Planners Education Forum, June 20 to 22....
NASD+NYSE=SIRA
When the NASD and NYSE Regulation (the arm of the New York Stock Exchange that deals with regulatory issues) merge, the new organization will be known as the Securities Industry Regulatory Authority. NASD CEO and Chairman Mary Schapiro, who will head SIRA, announced the new name in a speech at the Exchequer Club in Washington, D.C., last month...
SITE Adds New Networking Event
To fill the void left when it dropped its June SITE University meeting in 2003, the Society of Incentive and Travel Executives has announced a partnership with the Incentive Travel Exchange, an invitation-only event that brings North American buyers and pre-qualified suppliers together in pre-arranged one-on-one meetings. ...
The Baltimore–Fort Worth Connection
The convention bureaus of Fort Worth, Texas, and Baltimore have formed an innovative partnership in which shared salespeople will sell both destinations, encouraging multiyear contracts using both cities. ...
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