Group Room Rates Higher Than Transient Rates
Through the first half of the year, group customers are paying a higher average daily rate in the top 25 markets than transient hotel guests, according to Smith Travel Research...
Breining Shutters Concepts Worldwide
Concepts Worldwide Inc., the Carlsbad, Calif.–based independent meeting planning company launched by Terri Breining, CMP, CMM, more than 21 years ago, is closing...
Congress Considers Raising Deduction for Business Meals
Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) has reintroduced a bill to restore the 80 percent deduction for business meals and entertainment expenses...
Updated Model Meetings Policy Among U.S. Travel Resources
U.S. Treasury Department regulations issued this spring require boards of directors of companies receiving bailout funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program to establish companywide policies for luxury expenditures...
Senate Committee Passes FAA Act—Includes Passenger Bill of Rights Provisions
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has passed the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2009, which includes passenger bill of rights provisions and language that will accelerate the implementation of a next-generation traffic control system...
Hidden Camera Feeds Attack on Government Meeting
A television news crew used a hidden camera to record the closing minutes of a two-day training workshop held earlier this month by the U.S. Social Security Administration...
New Game Plan for Greenbrier Resort
The historic Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.V., is opening a casino. Voters in Greenbrier County, W.V., narrowly passed a referendum last November...
MPI Sets Aggressive Education Agenda
At Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference, association officials announced the opening of MPI Global Training Centers at San Diego State University, CERAM Business School on the French Riviera, and Qatar Mice Development Institute in Qatar...
Industry Loses Joe Durocher, Friend and Teacher
Joseph F. Durocher, 61, Nottingham, N.H., associate professor of Hospitality Management at the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics, Durham, N.H., lost his courageous battle with cancer on Saturday, July 18...
MPI Replaces Trade Show with Hosted Buyer Program
Meeting Professionals International has created a modified hosted-buyer program for its annual conference, MeetDifferent, scheduled for February 20–23 at Moon Palace in Cancun, Mexico...
No Suspects Named in Florida Meeting Executive’s Murder
olice are still investigating the murder last week of meeting industry veteran Ben Novack, Jr...
Maritz Inks Deal With Freeman
Maritz Travel Co. continues to build alliances, as evidenced by the recent announcement that it has partnered with Freeman as its preferred provider of audiovisual, multimedia, and creative services...
Meet Different and Get an Incredible Deal
When staff of Meeting Professionals International chose Cancun, Mexico, for the association’s 2010 MeetDifferent conference, it had many hotel options from which to choose. After several site inspections...
Acapulco: On Top of Safety
You can’t ignore the reports of violence in Acapulco. But you should get all the facts...
Does Mexico Still Motivate? Yes, When You Educate Attendees
The incentive conference had been booked for two years at a resort in Cancun. Then reports of violence related to drug trafficking in Mexico began to surface, and then increase...
Los Cabos: Second Safest State in Mexico
Los Cabos comprises two small and very different towns—lively Cabo San Lucas and laid-back San Jose del Cabo—that are joined by a 20-mile corridor of seaside resorts. The area is in the midst of many new developments and upgrades...
Meeting in Mexico: Tips, Advice from the Meeting Pros
Official warnings about travel to Mexico because of the H1N1 virus have been lifted. And tourism officials are doing all they can to show meeting planners why Mexico belongs back on their short lists of meeting sites...
MPI to Meeting Planners: Get Down to Business
Speakers set a more subdued tone than in past years at the opening general session of Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference on Sunday...
New Tool for Finding Green Meeting Suppliers
Green Meeting Industry Council has launched an online directory to help planners search for suppliers that are focused on environmentally responsible business practices...
Green Meetings Group Announces Oregon Chapter
The Green Meeting Industry Council is growing. The nonprofit organization has launched its first official affiliate organization, the GMIC Oregon Chapter, led by Megan Rooksby, American Express Corporate Meeting Solution...
Marriott and Starwood Announce Pay-Per-Use Telepresence
Having first explored the market for pay-per-use telepresence videoconferencing suites last fall, Cisco Systems last week announced a more extensive rollout of its technology in select hotels...
FICP’s Northeast Regional Meeting Tackles Tough Issues, While Excitement Builds for FICP’s Annual Conference
Working hard to create an up-to-the-minute agenda, FICP’s Northeast Chapter, chaired by MetLife’s Lindsay Maloni, chose the theme “Re-Define, Re-Direct & Re-Emerge” for its upcoming meeting...
Need a Unique Meeting Venue? Book a Ballgame!
It’s summer in the city, just the time to consider America’s favorite pastime—baseball—when searching for a unique meeting venue...
Financial Services Execs Split on When to Expect Recovery
Industry executives are about evenly split on the question, with around a third expecting some expansion this year, 34 percent seeing a return to growth in the first six months of 2010, and 32 percent expecting it even later than that. The 125 C-level executives were polled by Ernst & Young last month...
MPI Rolls Out Virtual Pass for July World Education Conference
Last week, with less than two weeks to go before its World Education Conference, Meeting Professionals International rolled out a Virtual Access Pass,” which allows members and nonmembers to sign up for a parallel online conference...
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