Las Vegas Workers Authorize Strike; MGM Mirage Settles
Some 10,000 culinary workers and bartenders in Las Vegas voted last week to authorize a strike, if necessary, in their effort to resolve their contract dispute with 14 Las Vegas casino resorts. ...
Waitlist Opens for FICP Annual
On Monday, September 10, Financial and Insurance Conference Planners closed registration for the 2007 Annual Conference November 11 to 14 in Scottsdale, Ariz., and set up a waitlist for planners....
Criticism of New Supplier Directory Brings Fast MPI Response
Meeting Professionals International launched its new Global Marketplace September 11, with the intention of opening up the supplier directory to nonmembers for a nominal annual fee. Within 24 hours, that plan had been changed, after an outcry from members....
Amex/StarCite Technology Integration (2007)
Companies that bill their meeting expenses to the American Express card and use the StarCite meeting spend management tool heard some noteworthy news last week: The companies are integrating those products, allowing—among other things—for planners to reconcile the charges without rekeying them into the spend management tool....
Bridge the (Generation) Gap
Differences among the generations were front of mind at the Krisam Group Executive Summit, held September 6 to 9 at the Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach in Cancun...
How to Stay Green on the Road
Randal Savage, corporate director, rooms, at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, White Plains, N.Y., has seen and heard it all. ...
McCormick Place West Opens for Business
It's called an addition, but the just-opened McCormick Place West in Chicago is more like a stand-alone, self-contained, 740,000-square-foot convention center, connected by an enclosed walkway to the 2.2-million-square-foot McCormick Place in Chicago...
Morial Nixes Expansion, Maps Upgrades
After years of uncertainty and delay, the Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority Board of Commissioners has abandoned efforts to expand the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, and instead plans to redirect some of the funds approved for the Phase IV expansion plan to renovate and upgrade existing space in the convention center...
New Venetian Opens in Macau
If it’s not Vegas, it must be … Macau? This tiny Chinese peninsula 37 miles southwest of Hong Kong, which includes the city of the same name, surpassed the gaming revenue of the Las Vegas Strip in 2006 and saw the opening August 28 of The Venetian Macao, billed as the world’s biggest casino...
New Leadership Conference at the Mo’ Show
Meeting and Incentive Travel Strategies is one of four learning tracks being offered at this year’s Motivation Show...
Getting a Handle on Housing
Meeting planners, convention and visitors bureau executives, and hoteliers gathered last week at the Passkey Housing Forum in Boston to hash out how to get a handle on some of today’s tough conference housing challenges...
Canadian Independent Planner Organization Renamed
The Independent Meeting Planners Association of Canada has rebranded itself as the Canadian Society of Professional Event Planners...
Hurricane Dean Continues Its Rampage; Total Damages Still Unknown
This morning, Hurricane Dean slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula with sustained winds of 165 mph and gusts of 200 mph. The eye of the storm is just north of the Mexico-Belize border, passing south of the resort areas of Cancun, Cozumel, and the Riviera Maya. ...
Tips for Retaining Exhibitors
How to keep exhibitors from pulling out of an exhibition...
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...
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