Make Your Case to Attend FICP Annual
FICP gives insurance and financial services meeting planners memos that they can customize and send to their management to justify attending at the 2009 FICP Annual Conference in November....
Financial and Insurance Planners at The Motivation Show: Smaller Crowd Takes Care of Business
Attendance may have been down at the 2009 Motivation Show, held September 29 to October 1 in Chicago, but for those who walked the aisles, there was still business to do, including building and maintaining relationships...
Checklist: 10 Ways to Save (But Not Kill the Experience!)
At The Motivation Show in late September, the agenda was filled with useful educational sessions, but perhaps none more so than “10 Ways to Cut Costs and Retain Quality”—the mantra of meeting professionals in this challenging economy...
Oct. 12 Deadline for SMMC Early-Bird Hotel Deal
The National Business Travel Association has sweetened the pot for people interested in taking the first week of its brand-new Strategic Meetings Management Certification course...
Speedier E-RFPs?
Elite Meetings International, a provider of integrated technology solutions for meeting and hospitality professionals, announced at The Motivation Show in Chicago last week a new electronic RFP process, called SpeedRFP...
Cruise Industry Veterans Launch Ship-Search Site
Joyce Landry and Jo Kling started their cruise-booking company, Landry & Kling, back in 1982. They’ve been at sea ever since...
Carlson Marketing Partners with Virtual Conference Provider
A new “Virtual Engagement Suite” announced by Carlson Marketing marries the virtual conference technology created by Menlo Park, Calif.–based Unisfair with Carlson’s meeting-management experience...
Commentary: Climate Change is the New Competitive Advantage
A funny thing is happening on the way to the global climate change summit in Copenhagen in December...
15 Steps for Managing Meeting Spend in Tough Economic Times
Thought leaders in the Strategic Meetings Management movement, the six-step process for identifying, leveraging, and managing a company’s meeting spend...
Amex Forecast: Higher Airfares, Lower Hotel Rates, and Greater Meeting Spend
Hotel rates will continue to decline while airfares will increase slightly in 2010. That was the projection from American Express’ 2010 Global Business Travel Forecast...
Motivation Show Gets New Format
Next year's Motivation Show will have a new format, schedule, and venue, announced Peter Erickson, managing director, Hall-Erickson Inc., at a press conference at this year’s show in Chicago on Tuesday. ...
Hyatt Finds Work for Fired Housekeepers
Reacting to the outcry over the firing of 98 housekeepers at three Boston-area Hyatt hotels, Hyatt Hotels Corp. announced September 25 that it has found full-time jobs in the Boston market for the displaced workers....
MPI Partners With CIC on CMP
Meeting Professionals International and the Convention Industry Council announced September 24 that they are partnering on the Certified Meeting Professional designation to make it more relevant to today’s planner....
Fortune Editor to Address FICP Annual Conference
Attendees at the Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Annual Conference in Toronto will get the inside scoop on the economy from one of the most knowledgeable insiders in Corporate America: Geoff Colvin...
Social Media: Are Meetings the Killer App?
When future historians look back on the early days of social media—the days we’re living through right now—they might find that some of the earliest “killer apps” for interactive technologies depended on the power of face-to-face meetings...
IAEE Publishes Pandemic Plan
Working with the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control, the International Association of Exhibitions and Events has published a guide to help event organizers—particularly not-for-profit associations—handle today’s H1N1 flu pandemic should it affect their shows...
Tackling “The Great Recession” at Site International’s Annual Conference
The world's incentive travel experts will gather at the Site (Society of Incentive and Travel Executives) International Conference 2009, October 30-November 2 in Aruba. The program’s education theme is "Business Without Boundaries."...
New Research Quantifies the ROI of Meetings and Business Travel
Findings from two studies released last week, one commissioned by the U.S. Travel Association and one by the National Business Travel Association and American Express Business Travel, each show a positive correlation between business travel spend and the growth of corporate profitability...
BCD M&I Announces Acquisition, Partnership
BCD Meetings & Incentives has made two strategic moves to strengthen its market position...
Pittsburgh Runs Afoul With G-20 Protest Groups
With thousands of protesters expected in Pittsburgh for the G-20 Summit on September 24-25, the city has been working to create protest zones near the David L. Lawrence Convention Center...
Using Virtual Technologies to Enhance Face-to-Face Meetings: A Free Webinar
Learn the language of videoconferencing, the kinds of meetings and events best suited to it, and the economies of different types of virtual technology in a free webinar organized by MeetingsNet on Tuesday, September 29, at 2 p.m. eastern time...
CIC Adds Voice to Meeting Industry PR Efforts
The Convention Industry Council has launched a public messaging task force to improve the image of meetings, the latest industry effort to battle the negative public perception of events and business travel...
Amsterdam RAI Center Offers Green Events; Opens New Sustainable Building
Exhibition and conference organizers headed to Amsterdam are now able to link up with Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre for help making their events at the convention center carbon-neutral...
BTC Shifts Position, Now Supports Oversight for Delayed Flights
The Business Travel Coalition has joined forces with nonprofit advocacy group FlyersRights.org to support passenger-rights legislation allowing airline passengers on domestic flights on U.S. carriers the option to exit an aircraft that has been delayed at least three hours on the tarmac...
New Global Meeting Fares Program
A new discount fare product for meetings has been rolled out by the Star Alliance, a network of 24 airlines around the globe, including United Airlines, US Airways, Lufthansa, Air Canada, and Singapore Airlines...
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