News from Gaming Resorts
The latest from Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and the Native American casinos...
ACTE: Business Travel "Stretched to the Limit"
In a survey to its members earlier this week, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives found that most were affected by this week's disruption of flights and many didn't have systems in place to accommodate stranded travelers....
4 Clauses You Need to Know
We tapped two prominent industry lawyers—Stephen Barth, founder of MeetingLawyer.com, and Tyra W. Hilliard, Esq., consultant, speaker, and trainer—to find out which meeting contract clauses put companies at the most risk...
Commentary: Is Eyjafjallajokull Just an Opening Act?
Who would have thought that volcanic ash from Iceland would ground air traffic around the world, with cancellations cascading from Europe to North America and Asia in a matter of days?...
Eruption Disruption: Meetings Scramble After Flight Cancellations
The unprecedented paralysis of European airspace as a result of the ash from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano has had widespread consequences for meetings and events throughout Europe...
What to Do in a Travel Emergency: 4 Tips
Kathy Hall-Zientek, manager of travel services for East Aurora, N.Y.–based Moog Inc., is no stranger to travel emergencies. She has navigated everything from plane crashes to hotel bombings to employee injuries for her travelers at Moog in order to ensure the safety of the staff. Here is the process she embarks on as soon as an alert comes in....
Post Con: After Hours With Jim Louis
Get to know the founder/Saturday moderator of the Meetings Community (MeCo) and CIO/Meeting Planner at Best Meetings Inc., Bloomington, Minn...
Tough Times for Corporate Event Planners
Tight corporate purse strings put pressure on independents...
Hotel Industry Forecast Improves as Construction Drops Off
Smith Travel Research has updated its forecast for 2010 to reflect a stronger performance than previously predicted in the three main metrics—occupancy, revenue per available room, and average daily rate. ...
MPI Offers Low-Cost (or Free) Registration to the World Education Conference
Meeting Professionals International has cut its registration fees dramatically for its July World Education Conference, with a limited two-week registration promotion that offers rates more than a third off the early-bird member price and more than half off nonmember rates. ...
Check Your Mail: CIC Sends Out Meeting Planner Surveys
The Convention Industry Council has launched what could be the most ambitious study ever on the economic impact of the meetings industry, sending out surveys on April 1 to meeting planners at its 32 member organizations. ...
Insurers Deal with Healthcare Reform: Meetings, Mergers, and a Farewell to Brokers
As elements of the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act kick in during the next decade, there will be a huge need for education and communication (read: meetings). Read what else former health plan CEO Mickey Herbert sees ahead for insurers....
Not Enough Hands-On Info About SMM? NBTA Responds
The Groups and Meetings Committee of the National Business Travel Association will roll out a comprehensive tool kit this summer....
Bank of America Makes Huge TelePresence Investment
Bank of America is making a dramatic investment in virtual meetings. By the end of 2010, the financial giant will have the world’s second-largest corporate network of Cisco TelePresence videconferencing systems—second only to Cisco itself....
IMEX Lines Up Innovators for TechTap 2010
Each year since 2004 the IMEX TechTap, a technology focused stand at the Frankfurt-based exhibition for meetings and incentive travel, has showcased meetings-related technologies, many of which are new products or first-time exhibitors....
Are the New Hyatt Videos Funny?
Tell us what you think about the new meeting planning videos on Funny or Die....
Try This: A High-Tech Scavenger Hunt for Meetings
In January about 60 attendees at a New York City meeting for ESPN Mobile scoured the city on a high-tech scavenger hunt produced by Boston-based SCVNGR. The fast-growing, two-year-old company, which received $4 million in venture funding from Google in December, has been most active creating mobile scavenger hunts as college orientation activities and custom museum tours, but six months ago it dove into the meeting and event space. ...
CIC Takes Part in Worldwide Standard Setting for Sustainable Events
After its hard work creating green standards for meeting planners in North America, the Convention Industry Council’s Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX) now is taking part in an international effort to create a worldwide standard for sustainable events in time for the 2012 Olympics in London....
Hotel Rates Down, Airfares Up, Says Latest Advito Report
Despite some of the gloomy projections out there, Atlanta–based business travel consulting firm Advito saw a double-digit increase in corporate travel in the first quarter of 2010....
AmEx Creates Tool for Companies to Measure Their Travel Activities
American Express rolls out a new Web “scorecard” tool and a survey about meetings and travel in the “new normal”...
RBC at the Olympics
When the clients and execs of Canada’s largest bank traveled to the Vancouver Olympics, Jennifer Dela-Cruz, CMP, was there to make it a once-in-a-lifetime experience....
Report From IACC Thought Leaders Technology Panel
Use social networking to extend the lifecycle and reach of your meeting, but tread carefully when you put tweets and attendees in the same room....
Meeting Industry Innovator Dave Hinton Dies at 68
The founder of hinton+grusich leaves a legacy of dedication to the meetings industry....
Healthcare Expert: What the New Reform Bill Means for Insurers and Meetings
Healthcare futurist, author, and speaker Joe Flower discusses the effects of healthcare reform legislation on the business strategies of insurance companies—including meetings....
Site Nite Europe to Kick Off IMEX
New event is the place to be on opening night...
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