The face2face MeetingsNet blog is an eclectic mix of news about meetings and events, hospitality, and business travel, along with helpful hints and the occasional rant.
With all the wild and horrid weather lately in the Mid-West, and devastating flooding and mudslides in the Carribean, I can't help but worry about the upcoming hurricane season and the potential damage it can wreak on unprepared meetings. ...
TravelCLICK’s latest report says that Europe is selling its room nights like hotcakes, outperforming the worldwide average by 6.7 percent with a 16.2 percent GDS in the first quarter of 2004. According to the report, the hottest of the Euro...
Talk about a sublimely stupid, yet totally amusing, mixture of all the food talk (low-carb, no-carb, fat-free) and criticism of the pharmaceutical industry: this article from The Onion Online is just, well, delicious. ...
Twelve Marriott International employees have been honored with the J. Willard Marriott Award of Excellence, the company announced today. With more than 300 nominees, these folks should be proud. ...
That’s what we may become if some of the future hotel ideas explored in this article from Forbes become a reality—-one of the ideas is to have a "pod" hotel on stilts that can be collapsed and moved to a new location with ease. And while space...
From a press release: "In a decision that could reshape the association profession, the boards of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives (GWSAE), the ASAE Foundation, and The...
I was at the CME Congress in Toronto last week, where there was lots of talk about core competencies for various types of physicians--the things they absolutely have to know to do their jobs. There also was a lot of discussion about what the docs...