PCMA and ACTE Form Strategic Alliance
After two years of consulting with each other on the content for their annual meetings, the Professional Convention Management Association and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives announced plans for a strategic alliance...
Airlines Add Fees on Top of Fees
Airlines, in a seemingly never-ending bid to supplement their revenues, are adding yet again to an already dizzying array of fees...
Marketing Gets Creative in Vegas and Indy
Two top destinations have put noteworthy twists on their marketing campaigns aimed at meeting executives...
The Active Network Unveils New “OnDemand” Event Management Tools
The Active Network Inc. has released ActiveEvents OnDemand, a scalable, Web-based event management solution for meeting professionals...
StarCite and Starwood Strike Partnership
Starwood Hotels & Resorts and StarCite, the Philadelphia-based meeting technology company, have agreed on a new partnership that will allow meeting planner’s electronic requests for proposal sent from StarCite’s online marketplace to directly connect with Starwood’s sales automation system...
Half Full: FICP Members Look to 2010 with Optimism
When the planning committee for this year’s Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Education Forum came up with the theme “Changemakers: Moving Mountains,” they perfectly described the challenges faced by members in recent months...
NBTA-ACTE Merger Talks Illustrate Meetings Associations’ Challenges
The board of the directors of the National Business Travel Association voted last week to continue to pursue a merger with the Association of Corporate Travel Executives...
Administration Officials “Tuned In” to Meetings
The meetings industry has gotten the attention of the Obama administration and has a strong supporter in Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, according to a high-ranking official with the U.S. Office of Travel and Tourism Industries...
Face of Travel Winner Announced
"I can now say it—I am Paco and I am the face of travel!" That was a Twitter post from Paco Saldaña just before noon eastern time today...
Green Is as Green Does: The IMEX Awards
The 2009 IMEX exhibition, showcasing incentive travel, meetings, and event suppliers from around the globe, wrapped up at the end of May in Frankfurt, Germany...
NBTA Seeks Collaboration With Other Industry Associations
The National Business Travel Association, Alexandria, Va., has recently been in talks with two industry associations: Meeting Professionals International and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives...
New Treasury Rules: Meetings Dodge a Bullet
The meetings and travel industry was generally hailing the new executive compensation rules issued by the U.S. Treasury Department on June 10...
SMMP Tech Consultancy Launches
Here’s the word from a bona fide meetings technology expert: Don’t rush out and buy meetings technology...
New Tool Analyzes Trade Show Investments
Exhibit Surveys Inc. has partnered with Constellation Communication Corp. to offer an online planning tool that walks exhibitors through setting objectives for their trade-show participation...
Digital Media on the Rise in Event Marketing
Digital media are becoming an increasingly important part of the marketing mix for corporate and exhibition management professionals...
Canceled Programs Cost Planners Millions in Fees, Suppliers Billions in Lost Revenue
The average meeting planner expects to cancel or postpone meetings worth $560,000 in room revenue in 2009 and 2010, according to a recent survey conducted by the Professional Convention Management Association...
MPI to Honor Obama for America Campaign
Betsy Myers, chief operating officer and senior advisor for the Obama for America campaign, will take the stage on July 10 to accept Meeting Professionals International’s first RISE Award on behalf of her organization...
Meetings Industry Mourns Loss of Tony Carey
Tony Carey, CMP, CMM, U.K.-based writer, speaker, and consultant to the international meetings industry, died on June 2 at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer...
AmEx and Maritz Create MaXvantage: Total SMMP Solution
With the intention not just of helping companies to track and control their meeting spending but also to document and defend the reasons for their meeting choices, American Express Business Travel and Maritz Travel have joined forces to offer MaXvantage...
Secure Flight Takes Off
The Transportation Security Administration has finally begun implementing Secure Flight, after a controversial five-year gestation...
InXpo Inks Second Deal with Meeting and Event Biggie
Last week, InXpo Inc., the Chicago-based virtual event company, announced a partnership with Maritz, its second deal with a major meeting and event company in the past two months...
Delta To Bring Back Meeting Fares
Four years after discontinuing its Delta Meeting Network program, Delta Air Lines plans to roll out a new program that will offer special rates for meetings customers...
CIC Endorses CMP Study Course
Convention Industry Council has endorsed the Professional Convention Management Association’s online prep course as the “official study course” for CIC’s Certified Meeting Professional exam...
Amex Rolls Out New Online Booking Tool for Small Meetings
As budgets tighten and corporate meeting managers find they are taking on additional work with fewer resources, many are looking for ways to automate and streamline the planning process...
Senate Committee Passes Travel Promotion Act
The Senate Commerce Committee last week approved the Travel Promotion Act, a five-year plan to attract more international visitors to the United States...
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