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...
Many Want Green Travel, but Most Won’t Spend Extra Green
Roughly half of all Americans are more likely to choose airlines, hotels, and rental car companies that are environmentally responsible, but not if the price tag is too high...
CMPs Want Advanced Designation, More Online Training, Survey Says
Certified Meeting Professionals, while mostly satisfied with the value they get from achieving this professional designation, are looking for improvements to the program, according to a new survey of current and past CMPs commissioned by the Convention Industry Council...
New Quick-Start Group Hotel Reservations Product
Passkey International Inc., Quincy, Mass., which offers an Internet-based technology that allows hotels and planners to manage group hotel reservations, has come out with a new product called EventExpress that offers...
San Francisco Opens Registered Traveler Lanes
San Francisco International Airport in mid-September opened Registered Traveler lanes designed to speed enrolled travelers through airport security. ...
MPI Revamps, Renames 2008 PEC-Europe
Meeting Professionals International is making changes to its Professional Education Conference-Europe for 2008—including a new name. ...
Passports Needed Again for Western Hemisphere Travel
After a four-month reprieve, U.S. citizens must again present a passport when flying to and from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Bermuda....
Incentives in Corporate America: “a Whopping, Major-League Industry”
The benchmarks are in, and the numbers are huge: U.S. companies spent $46 billion on travel and merchandise incentives in 2006, according to a study sponsored by the Incentive Federation, an umbrella organization that conducts lobbying and research efforts on behalf of the incentive industry....
MeCo Hosts First Chat Lesson in Second Life
Approximately 20 avatars gathered in Second Life on September 20, on the lawn of the MeCo Mansion for the Meetings Community listserv’s first Chat Lesson in the virtual online world...
Meeting and Hospitality Industry Leaders Petition Congress
More than 70 U.S. companies and organizations--including meetings industry associations, convention and visitors bureaus, and hotels--signed a petition urging Congress to pass the Travel Promotion Act of 2007....
Joint Commission Explores the Convention Center/CVB Relationship
A yearlong study by a coalition of convention center managers and convention and visitors bureau executives culminated in the release of a 14-page report on how the two entities can work together most effectively to serve the meetings and conventions industry....
OSI Settles Meeting Flap
Osram Sylvania Inc. will hold its annual national sales meeting at the Boca Raton Resort & Club after all....
Massachusetts: The Next Gaming Mecca?
Could Massachusetts become the next big gaming destination?...
Hurricanes Make Lots of Noise, Little Tourism Damage
It's been a relatively quiet hurricane season for the U.S., but busier in the Caribbean and Mexico. Still, though prepared for the worst as storms approached, the resorts in those areas got off very easy....
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