Mitchell's Outlook: Airfares Stabilize, Routes Disappear, Fees Are Here to Stay
One silver lining to the dark economic cloud is that the growing credit crisis and resulting travel cutbacks at many companies is likely to end the upward creep in airline fares, says Kevin Mitchell, chairman of the Business Travel Coalition, a Radnor, Pa., organization seeking to influence policy on issues affecting business travelers. ...
New Meetings Industry Event Launched
A new trade show for the U.S. meetings and incentives market will debut in Baltimore in 2010: the Americas Incentive Business Travel and Meetings Exhibition....
Planners and Hotels Cautious in Crisis, DMAI Chairwoman Says
“It’s chaos right now. Every day is a new adventure. There’s nothing in the handbook about weathering an economic downtown, in an election year, with a war on. It’s just a very different time,” says Maura Gast, executive director at the Irving [Texas] Convention and Visitors Bureau....
AIG Cancels Event in Face of Criticism
After several days of being heavily criticized for holding a lavish incentive travel program just days after receiving an $85 billion loan from the federal government, AIG today canceled an upcoming incentive program at the Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay in California and announced that it is reviewing all of its meetings....
MPI Selects Host Cities for Upcoming Meetings
Meeting Professionals International has announced the dates and locations for its upcoming World Education Congresses through 2013 and for its MeetDifferent conferences (formerly MPI’s Professional Education Conference-North America) through 2010....
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