MPI's 2010 Futurewatch Survey
The hand-wringing is done, and now the meetings industry is “digging in and adapting.” That’s the conclusion of FutureWatch 2010, the eighth annual survey of meeting planners and suppliers conducted by Meeting Professionals International and American Express. We've got all the results....
Packed Program Planned for MeetDifferent
Meeting Professionals International brings its MeetDifferent conference to Cancun, Mexico, February 20–23, and as its title promises, organizers are trying out an array of educational formats in order to expose attendees to new ideas and enrich their experience....
Commentary: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Meetings Travel
As the economic crash unfolded last year, industry associations and various think tanks unleashed a torrent of statistics to track the downturn’s impact on meetings and events....
Create a Blueprint for Planning Green Meetings
Meeting professionals know that the environmental impact of conferences needs to be reduced. The question is how. Many have taken their first steps (we may have seen our last bottle of water at meetings), but far fewer have a comprehensive plan for green meeting planning....
Year in Review: Top 10 MeetingsNet Stories of 2009
A troubled economy, H1N1, strategic meetings management-even murder: Here’s a last look at our top 10 stories of 2009, as determined by the number of page views each of them logged on our MeetingNet Web site. ...
Emotional Intelligence Expert Headlines FICP Northeast Meeting
As we cruise into 2010, the Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Northeast Region has selected the theme “Shifting Gears” for its January meeting....
SmithBucklin Reorganizes Event Services Under Weaber
SmithBucklin has announced the reorganization of its meeting and event planning operation, consolidating units in Chicago and Washington, D.C., under Brad Weaber, who has been appointed to the new position of executive vice president, event services. ...
Business Travelers Unfazed by Terrorism Attempt, Survey Says
The attempted bombing of an Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight on Christmas Day is not keeping business travelers on the ground, according to a just-released survey of 152 travel managers by the National Business Travel Association. ...
Commentary: Top 10 Meetings Resolutions for 2010
Happy new year, everyone! It’s pretty much mandatory for columnists to close the old year or begin the new one with wrap-ups, resolutions, or some other antidote to a slow news week. So stand by for 10 meetings resolutions for 2010....
Individual Incentives: Take Your Pick
For winners, individual incentive travel means choice. For companies, it can be a nimble, low-cost, low-risk motivational tool for today's challenges...
Future Incentives: Take Your Pick
The traditional incentive travel model in the insurance and financial services industry could use a boost. Can your field force wait 18 months or more...
Futurist: Reports of the Death of Meetings Are Exaggerated
"The overall value of conferences is too great to trash," says Richard Worzel, CFA. However, this futurist sees many global influences that will cause meeting planners to rethink their programs and their planning....
New Name, Same Mission: The Sustainable Meetings Conference
Register by December 31 to get the early-bird rate for The Sustainable Meetings Conference, set for February in Denver....
Two Major Initiatives Launched to Combat Negative Perception of Meetings
The Convention Industry Council and some of its organization members have partnered to launch two industry initiatives aimed at improving the image of meetings in the media and at government and policymaking levels...
Climate Conference Aims to Shake Up Meetings Industry
We've got a behind-the-scenes report straight from the Climate Conference in Copenhagen, where meetings industry leaders hope to set the tone for sustainability, and the United Nations World Tourism Organization just announced its "Live the Deal" campaign for green travel....
The A-to-Z List for International Meeting Planning: Check it Twice!
Planning a meeting outside of your home country brings new challenges. Longtime global meeting professional Carol Krugman, CMP, CMM, has started to make a list of them, from A to Z. ...
Convention 2020: IMEX and ICCA Look Into the Crystal Ball
Partly to improve meeting and venue design and success and partly to avoid being caught flat-footed in the midst of future crises like the global downturn of the past 12 to 18 months, two major meetings organizations and a consulting firm have announced a research project called Convention 2020, which will consider the future of live events and venues....
EIBTM Show Sets Record; Trends Report Released
EIBTM has released its 2009 trends report, which shows corporate meetings slowly gaining ground again. Association meetings have been resilient through the downturn, as EIBTM itself showed, marking record attendance in Barcelona....
New Online Reseller for Canceled Meeting Contracts
If you’re looking down the barrel of a big cancellation penalty, a new online service could help save your budget. MeetingTrader, a clearinghouse for canceled meeting space, expects to come out of its beta-test phase in the first quarter of 2010, but meeting professionals are already making use of the service to help resell their meeting contracts and mitigate their cancellation fees. ...
Redbutton.tv: Fastest Memories on the Meeting Scene
Production and photo company redbutton.tv lets attendees browse and select their favorite meeting photos right on site and e-mail them anywhere....
Industry Update with FICP Executive Director Steve Bova
Following a successful Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Annual Conference in Toronto, FICP Executive Director Steve Bova talks about the association and his new appointment to the Convention Industry Council board of directors on behalf of FICP....
Community Service at Securian
For its contributions in supplies, money, time, and energy to an orphanage during an African incentive trip, Securian Financial Group earned a Site Crystal Award for best sustainable motivational program....
FICP Conference in Toronto: International, but Easy
When he was president of FICP several years ago, Michael Burke, manager, conference & travel services at The Hanover Insurance Group in Worcester, Mass., was in charge of selecting the site for this year’s meeting. Choosing Toronto, he says, was easy. Here's why......
Industry Leaders to Obama: 7 Ways to Create More Jobs
With nearly 400,000 travel industry jobs lost in 2008 and 2009 as a result of the economic downturn, both the U.S. Travel Association and the American Hotel and Lodging Association are urging President Barack Obama to enact legislation that reverses that trend...
Why Not Replace 20 Percent of Business Trips with Videoconferences?
When a comment from an EU Commissioner prompted media headlines saying the European Union had declared war on business trips, much discussion ensued. We look at the subtleties behind the sound bites....
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