Commentary: Sustainable Meeting Standards—Sorting Through Alphabet Soup
Time and effort that will be needed to put the full menu of sustainable meeting standards into practice....
Incentive Winners at the Super Bowl, VIP Style
The National Football League’s NFL On Location packages turn the Super Bowl into a VIP extravaganza....
U.S. Travel to Educate Lawmakers to Protect the Meetings Industry
The U.S. Travel Association has launched a new campaign to raise awareness in Congress about the importance of meetings and incentive travel to the economy. ...
Virtual Risk, Real Reward
Adding a virtual component to your live meeting requires homework, teamwork, patience, and persistence. But the payoff was big for Thrivent Financial's National Sales Meeting....
Cruise Meetings and Safety: Q&A with a Cruise Pro
Jo Kling has spent 30 years matching groups with ships. We got her perspective on safety after the tragedy of the Costa Concordia....
Costa Concordia Tragedy Prompts Cruise Industry Reviews and Changes
Despite cruising’s historically excellent overall safety record, the January 13 shipwreck has prompted calls for cruise industry safety reviews and possible procedural and regulatory changes....
Commentary: Are Conference Center Expansions a Boon or a Bane?
It’s never been more important for the industry to get its analysis right, rather than assuming that every convention center expansion is an automatic winner....
Obama Travel Initiatives Met with Praise
President Barack Obama announced new initiatives aimed at boosting the economy by increasing the number of international visitors who travel to the United States each year....
Commentary: PCMA General Session Walks the Talk
PCMA made a gutsy decision to blow up its opening general session and rebuild it from the ground up....
New Network for Virtual Content Launches
Online event marketing agency bXb Online is creating a hub for virtual meetings content. ...
Mega Convention Center Proposed for Queens, New York
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed building a 3.8 million-square-foot convention center in Queens....
TED Founder Talks Meetings at PCMA
TED founder Richard Saul Wurman engaged the audience at the Professional Convention Management Association’s 2012 Convening Leaders conference....
PCMA Pushes Innovation at San Diego Conference
The Professional Convention Management Association's 2012 Convening Leaders annual meeting in San Diego, January 8–11, incorporates the live with the virtual, and a variety of format innovations....
Commentary: Sustainable F&B Is Hard to Define
If you’re looking at food and beverage as an area where you can make your meetings more sustainable, it may be tougher than you think....
VEI’s New Digital Certification Program Gets Scholarship Money
The Virtual Edge Institute's new Digital Event Strategist certification program has received $100,000 in support. ...
Active Network, Maker of RegOnline, Acquires StarCite
New Active Network Business Solutions division covers companies' full range of events....
Winding Down 2011 With a Flurry of Newsmakers
The end of 2011 saw a flurry of job-hopping on the supplier side of the meetings marketplace, particularly in destination marketing organizations. The hotel industry saw some big changes, too. ...
FICP Association News: Leadership Changes, Meeting Sites
What's ahead for Financial & Insurance Conference Planners in 2012...
FICP 2011 Annual Conference: Buzz and Substance
Projecting the impression of an industry that is healthy, busy, and focused on education, around 650 meeting planners and hospitality partners gathered at the Grand Hyatt San Antonio in November....
Koleen Roach: FICP Member Profile
FICP’s 2012 Chair is Koleen Roach, Director, Meetings & Conference Management, at Securian Financial Group ...
Hotels’ Secrets for Setting Room Rates
Understanding the complex world of revenue management is your key to successful contract negotiations....
2012: The Year of Integration—or, Solving Problems by Making Them Bigger
Kids at Incentive Conferences: A Growing Trend
Family-friendly incentive conferences can boost not just production, but loyalty....
Future Convention Cities Initiative Members Gather During COP17
One of the Future Convention Cities Initiative member cities—Durban, South Africa—has just wrapped up successfully hosting the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...
Airfare Hikes Expected in 2012
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