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The Economic Impact on Meeting Planning
Learn about the effect of the economy on the meeting planning industry.
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Canceled Programs Cost Planners Millions in Fees, Suppliers Billions in Lost Revenue
The average meeting planner expects to cancel or postpone meetings worth $560,000 in room revenue in 2009 and 2010, according to a recent survey conducted by the Professional Convention Management Association...
Canceled Programs Cost Planners Millions in Fees, Suppliers Billions in Lost Revenue
The average meeting planner expects to cancel or postpone meetings worth $560,000 in room revenue in 2009 and 2010, according to a recent survey conducted by the Professional Convention Management Association...
Tales from the Downturn: Good Deals (If You Can Get 'Em)
In this buyer’s market, hoteliers are willing to negotiate just about anything—but don’t expect it to last...
Deal or No Deal?
From no-attrition policies to a willingness to renegotiate existing contracts, hoteliers are giving out some great meetings deals these days. But they don’t come without a cost...
Tales from the Downturn: How Some Shows Are Exceeding Expectations
Despite the tough economy, some associations, including the United States Institute of Theater Technology, exceeded expectations with their annual conference from the get-go. USITT’s Stage Expo attracted 4,400 attendees. Here’s how they did it...
Tales from the Downturn: How NEMICE Built Attendance Despite Down Economy
Things were looking bleak for the New England Meeting Industry Conference and Exhibition’s meeting this spring. How NEMICE organizers recovered is a lesson in meeting planning damage control...
Tales from the Downturn: Meeting Cancellation Leads to Bankruptcy
The economic recession has taken its toll on many association meetings in some way, but it has hit none harder, perhaps, than the National Child Support Enforcement Association...
Tales From the Downturn: Scrap Metal Show Wheels and Deals
Keeping room blocks low and expectations high—plus a presidential keynote—spelled success for scrap metal show...
Religious Conference Manager Asks: How are your meetings being affected by the recession?
Attendance had been trending down before the financial crunch hit, so we knew we had to do something different. We conducted surveys and listening sessions and found that folks wanted three things...
Culinary Association Polls Members on Launch of New Meeting
Given the global economic climate, leaders at the International Culinary Tourism Association wondered if perhaps a new summit they were planning for 2010 should be a virtual event instead of a live one...
FICP Fully on Board with Industry Coalition
The Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Board of Directors has reiterated its support for the meetings industry coalition formed by the U.S Travel Association...
Lasting “AIG Effect”
AIG’s spending spree at a St. Regis resort last September, just days after receiving federal bailout money, continues to send aftershocks throughout the resort and luxury segments of the industry...
Hotel Construction Slowing
The recession is beginning to have an impact on hotel construction in the United States as the number of new hotel projects in the pipeline is declining...
Fun Under the T.A.R.P.
Cave parties in caves and Chateu Margeaux in Gatorade bottles—some under-the-radar event ideas...
Taking Stock with Editor Regina Baraban
Were you one of thousands to write to your congressmen and women on behalf of the meetings industry?...
Financial Industry Planner Speaks Out on Cancellations
Meetings have taken a beating at the hands of U.S. reporters and legislators, and it’s rocking the planners’ world. Here we present a view from the inside...
U.S. Travel’s Freeman Hopeful About Treasury Guidelines
If you’re hearing and reading less about the negative perception of meetings and incentive travel, it’s no accident...
Hawaii Looks to Obama for Help
Hard hit by an epidemic of meeting cancellations, Hawaii is turning to favorite son President Barack Obama for some needed relief...
The Economic Value of Meetings
Business meetings are not the enemy. In terms of making the nation more productive and better off, they are builders, not saboteurs, wrote lawyer, actor,...
Legendary Greenbrier Resort Files for Bankruptcy
The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.V., is the latest luxury property to get hit by the recession. After 231 years in operation, the 721-room resort filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 19...
Dubai Falling Hard
In the United States, cities whose real estate values rose fastest are falling hardest in these challenging economic times. The same can be said for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates...
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