MPI’s First Hosted-Buyer Program Generates 1,500 Appointments
More than 1,500 pre-scheduled appointments between 110 meeting managers and 90 suppliers took place February 20-23 at Meeting Professionals International’s MeetDifferent 2010 conference in Cancun, Mexico. This marks MPI's first foray into a hosted-buyer program, which offered complimentary hotel stays and airfare or registration for qualified meeting planners who committed to meet with 15 suppliers. While the program got more participants than expected, it took time for some of the buyers—and suppliers—to get used to the system. ...
Trio of Reports Shows Insurance Industry Stabilizing
Though the economic outlook in the United States remains uncertain, there are positive signs in the insurance industry—including a recovering AIG....
EIBTM Honors Event Company for Top ROI Measurement
EIBTM, the European Incentive, Business Travel & Meetings exhibition, which wrapped up in December in Barcelona, has awarded a Finnish event-management company top honors for its use of ROI Methodology to measure the success of a client's meeting. Here's how it worked. ...
International Meetings Outlook: U.S. Organizations Sticking Close to Home
International meeting and incentive destinations suffered through major declines in group business in 2009, and the outlook is not much better for 2010, according to two recent reports. ...
Commentary: Making "Green Meetings" Redundant
My head is still spinning with ideas, enthusiasm, and wall-to-wall content from last week's 2010 Sustainable Meetings Conference in Denver, hosted by the Green Meeting Industry Council....
Be in Your Attendee’s Pocket: Smart-Phone Apps for Meetings
9 Must-Have Apps for Meeting Pros
As long as you're dragging that smart phone everywhere you go, you may as well put it to work. We've rounded up nine must-have apps for meeting professionals (and a few more just for fun). All are built for the iPhone, but BlackBerry users take heart: some comparable applications are out there. ...
Need to Keep Employees Positive in a Down Economy? Just Ask Bob Nelson
CMI columnist Bob Nelson has become the "guru of thank you" by sharing best practices from companies around the globe. His most recent book, Keeping Up in a Down Economy: What the Best Companies Do to Get Results in Tough Times, is packed with even more....
Ritz-Carlton, Lake Las Vegas, to Close
Another luxury property, The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Las Vegas, in Henderson, Nev., will close its doors on May 2. ...
Homeland Security Charged with Controlling Meeting Spend
The U.S. Office of Inspector General is urging the Department of Homeland Security to have greater oversight and controls over money spent on conferences...
DMCs Battle Against Burdensome Taxes
DMCs asking for industry support...
Call to FICP Members: Boost Membership, Boost Your Opportunities
More than 70 planners and suppliers checked in to Tarrytown House Estate & Conference Center for the Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Northeast Regional meeting. Here’s what they talked about. ...
Incentive Research Foundation “Cautiously Optimistic” about 2010
The most recent pulse survey from the Incentive Research Foundation indicates some stabilization in incentive budgets and spending in 2010. ...
Meetings and Incentives Partners With Travelocity Business
Meetings and Incentives, the Caledonia, Wis.-based meetings management company, will partner with corporate travel management company giant Travelocity Business....
Kuoni Buys TBA Global’s U.S. Destination Management Division
You'll soon get to know Kuoni—the high-end leisure travel and tour company that just purchased the U.S. destination management operations of TBA Global. We spoke with the CEO....
The 2009 Hotel Scene: How Bad Was It?
Most Procurement Managers Don't "Get" Meetings Yet: ISM-NBTA Summit
The 175 attendees at the recent joint summit between the Institute for Supply Management and National Business Travel Association were the elite few taking the leap into not only managing their companies' business travel but also getting their arms around meeting spend. ...
FICP Northeast Regional Meeting Report
Where members and hospitality partners from Financial & Insurance Conference Planners gather, networking and best practices follow. Here's some of what we heard at the recent Northeast Regional FICP Meeting at Tarrytown House Estate & Conference Center...
Snapshot of HelmsBriscoe in 2009: 18,000 Programs, 3 Million Room Nights
HelmsBriscoe has grown from a innovative idea in 1992 to a major force in the meetings industry. Here's a look inside the company's Annual Business Conference. ...
Aria Resort: Design and Service Take Center Stage
Walking into the Aria Resort & Casino, in the new $8.5 billion CityCenter complex in Las Vegas, is not like walking into any other casino-based resort in the city. The casino, even at 150,000 square feet, does not dominate. You don’t even see it at first. What stands out is design, art, architecture, the fact that this place is really interesting. ...
What Happens in Vegas Stays in … Budget
Planners concerned about the perception of Las Vegas as a meeting destination might try pitching the city as the biggest value in meetings right now. Room rates remain low, even as the hotel towers keep rising in the desert....
Haiti Relief Flows from Meetings and Hospitality Industries
The world is reaching out to help the people of Haiti in the wake of the 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck 10 miles outside of Port-au-Prince on January 12. Here are some easy ways you can help the relief efforts, along with a list of some of the efforts under way from the meetings and hospitality industries...
NBTA Creates European Arm
In a major expansion of its operations, the National Business Travel Association has launched a new European arm, NBTA Europe. Several associations have partnered with NBTA to create NBTA Europe—the Danish Business Travel Association, Iberian Business Travel Association of Spain and Portugal, Institute of Travel & Meetings of the UK and Ireland, Netherlands Association for Travel Management, Norwegian Business Travel Association, and Swedish Business Travel Association—and their 2,000 corporate and government travel manager and supplier members will automatically become members of NBTA Europe for one year. ...
Cool Meetings Tools for 2010
2010? That can’t be right. It sounds so … so … futuristic. Mind you, 2009 had that same ring to it in about 1997, but 2010 just seems like an Arthur Clarke book title. (Actually, it is, but that’s another department.) Let’s take a look toward the 2010 horizon at the technologies that will affect the way meeting professionals manage and plan, and the way attendees interact with the world. ...
Site Foundation Tech Survey Finds Lack of Forward Planning
A recent survey of incentive industry professionals shows a possible disconnect in the importance placed on technology: Most respondents say that technology is critical when choosing partner companies, but at the same time, remarkably few of those respondents are organized about planning their technology needs into the future...
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