NBTA to Launch Strategic Meetings Management Certification
The National Business Travel Association has a new certification under development that will offer training to meetings, travel, and procurement professionals who want to learn the business behind a successful strategic meetings management program...
Meeting Woes and Cancellations Continue for Financial Industry
As the nation’s economic condition deteriorates, the meetings industry, particularly within the insurance and financial services sector, continues to take more than its fair share of hits...
CVBs Speak Out for Meetings
Some destinations are fighting back against the negative perception of meetings and incentives...
“Grassroots Army” Needed to Fight Negative Perceptions
Roger Dow, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, today unveiled the Industry Coalition’s new information and advertising campaign called “Meetings Mean Business” to fight “irresponsible attacks” from the government and the media that are causing, what he characterized as massive cancellations of meetings, incentives, and events, as well as postponements of future bookings...
17 Cities to Host Discussions about Green Meetings
People interested in the standards being created for greening meetings and events will have an opportunity to comment on them starting the week of March 16, when the first phase of city discussion groups (CDGs) rolls out, according to an announcement made at the Greening the Hospitality Industry Conference, organized by the Green Meeting Industry Council in Pittsburgh last week....
Supreme Court Ruling Impacts Indian Gaming
A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court has put several potential casino projects across the country into doubt....
Buried in Bad News? Your SMMP is Your Lifeline.
Looking with dread at the year ahead? You're not alone. Your peers also are canceling programs, losing meeting team members, and trying to stay positive...
Meeting Leaders Convene to Discuss TARP
Meetings and events industry leaders met Wednesday, February 25, in Washington to further an agenda of promoting the positive impact of meetings, events, and incentives at a time of negative attention from the media and government. ...
ASAE Asks Kerry to Reconsider Anti-Meeting Legislation
The American Society of Association Executives has sent a letter to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) asking him to reconsider the bill he introduced to Congress earlier this week—TARP Taxpayer Protection and Corporate Responsibility Act (S. 463). ...
Hoteliers Urge Lawmakers to Dial Down Rhetoric
Ten top hotel companies and the U.S. Travel Association banded together to buy advertising space on two prominent news Web sites read by U.S. legislators in an attempt to get their message out about the repercussions of negative rhetoric for the meetings and events industry....
Legislation to Further Curb TARP Company Meetings Proposed
Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) wants to prevent companies that have received funds from the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program from hosting, sponsoring, or paying for conferences, holiday parties, and entertainment events during the year in which they receive funds....
Coalition Plans P.R. Tool Kit for Meeting Industry
Included in the U.S. Government’s huge stimulus package, known as The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, are rules on executive compensation and “luxury expenditures”—including meetings—for companies that receive government bailout money...
Travel Association Foundations Merge
Destination Marketing Association International and U.S. Travel Association have merged their foundations. ...
FICP Talk Radio: Meetings a Must
Maintaining a commitment to meetings will be crucial as companies try to climb out of the economic hole created by the recession, said Larry Roth, president and CEO of the AIG Advisor Group, and other panelists on a February 18 “State of the Industry” audioconference organized by Financial and Insurance Conference Planners. ...
Reed Travel’s New U.S. Incentive Show Delays Launch
The high-profile launch of Reed Travel Exhibitions’ first U.S. conference—the Americas Incentive Business Travel & Meetings Exhibition—will be delayed at least a year, according to RTE Meetings and Incentive Events Group Exhibition Director Paul Kennedy. ...
Year-end ’08 Hotel Performance Results Released
The world’s four regions of the hotel world—the Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe, and Middle East/Africa, as analyzed by STR Global, reported mixed year-end results for 2008, although no city reported an increase in occupancy....
Australia’s Bush Fires Spare Melbourne
AIME 2009, the 17th Asia-Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo, unfolded this week in Melbourne, Australia while the region’s devastating bush fires still raged in more remote areas of the state of Victoria. ...
Meeting Professionals Try to Negate the AIG Effect
Meeting Professionals International did a lot right at the MeetDifferent conference in Atlanta this week...
Cost-Cutting is Biggest Trend, says LIMRA Study on Recognition Conferences
As companies continue to reevaluate upcoming recognition programs in light of public perception issues engendered by media coverage of these programs, we hear frequent media reports about canceled incentive conferences....
EventView 2009: Event Marketing Survey Finds Measurement Critical
Event budgets diminishing? It might be time to rethink your post-event measurement process. According to new findings from EventView 2009: North America, companies that have a process for post-event measurement are twice as likely to receive increases in their marketing budgets than those that do not....
MPI Panelists Assess Hotel Outlook: The Perfect Storm
When Meeting Professionals International first brought a panel of industry experts together for a frank discussion on the meetings market last August at its World Education Congress in Las Vegas, concern about the economy predominated the conversation. ...
Fire Destroys Two Conference Centers; IACC Seeks to Help
Raging bush fires in Australia last Saturday completely destroyed two conference centers, The Cumberland Marysville and the Marysville Country House, located in the Yarra Valley northeast of Melbourne. ...
E-Petition Launches in Support of Meetings
Negative publicity has been churning in the media around the meetings and incentives industry because of the perception that events organized by companies receiving emergency relief money from the federal government were inappropriate. ...
Industry Response to Meeting Restrictions Shifts into High Gear
In a hastily called, but packed session at Meeting Professionals International’s MeetDifferent conference, being held in Atlanta this week, Christine Duffy, president and CEO of Maritz Travel, and Jonathan Howe, JD, president, senior partner, Howe & Hutton Ltd., chief legal counsel for MPI, outlined the meeting industry's response to U.S. Government efforts to curtail the meetings, events, and incentive travel programs of companies receiving funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program...
Model Guidelines for TARP Fund Recipients
In reaction to the U.S. Treasury Department’s new guidelines for companies receiving funds from its Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Meeting, Event, and Incentive Coalition has developed a model policy for approval of meetings, events, and incentive travel, as well as a representative list of legitimate business purposes for these events....
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