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...
The Gurus of Green Empower Planners, Cities
Aiming for a more recognizable brand and a sharper focus for their company, Amy Spatrisano and Nancy Wilson, co-founders of Meeting Strategies Worldwide, have renamed the company MeetGreen...
Disney Buys Land at National Harbor, Md.
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts’ first and only stand-alone resort hotel, Ko' Olina, is under construction on the Hawaiian island of Oahu—but a second may not be far behind...
IACC Members Sign Code, Pledge Sustainable Business Practices
The International Association of Conference Centers has launched a Code of Sustainability to encourage its member properties to implement and follow environmentally sound practices...
Travel Advisories to Mexico Lifted, MPI Confirms Meeting
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted its advisory against non-essential travel to Mexico on May 15...
The First Goal of International Meetings: Clear Communication
“Meetings and events are first and foremost about communication. When communication breaks down, delegates are dissatisfied and events fail to achieve their goals...
IRF Survey: Niche Analysis of Incentive Practices
The Incentive Research Foundation held its 14th Annual Incentive Invitational over the weekend...
Maritz Building e-Meeting Partners Program
Maritz has announced a partnership with a satellite broadcasting company, Velocity Broadcasting, as the first prong is a new suite of technology services called Maritz LIVE...
FICP Fully on Board with Industry Coalition
The Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Board of Directors has reiterated its support for the meetings industry coalition formed by the U.S Travel Association...
Starting Your Own Business: Is Now the Time?
When J.P. Morgan took over Seattle-based Washington Mutual in September 2008, the New York investment firm decided to downsize the West Coast office with the intention of ultimately moving employees east...
Cost-Saving Tips for Hiring Speakers
These days, speakers bureaus are getting lots of requests for presenters on the cheap. But industry veteran Diane Goodman of Goodman Speakers Bureau suggests...
FICP Cuts a Day from Annual Conference
In response to member feedback, and in consideration of the ongoing global recession, Financial & Insurance Conference Planners has announced that it is shortening its annual conference by one day this year...
Hotel a Go in Dallas
A heated debate over whether or not the city of Dallas should fund construction of a convention center headquarters hotel ended Saturday when residents voted to move forward with the publicly funded hotel...
Lasting “AIG Effect”
AIG’s spending spree at a St. Regis resort last September, just days after receiving federal bailout money, continues to send aftershocks throughout the resort and luxury segments of the industry...
Flu Scare Causes Associations to Postpone Meetings
Because of concerns over the H1N1 flu outbreak, the Food Marketing Institute has postponed two events that were scheduled in Dallas for this week...
Fun Under the T.A.R.P.
Cave parties in caves and Chateu Margeaux in Gatorade bottles—some under-the-radar event ideas...
Swine Flu Alters Meeting Policy, Meetings in Mexico and Beyond
As the new strain of swine flu put the health authorities around the world on alert over the past two weeks, many corporations around the country reacted quickly to the threat by canceling meetings and putting restrictions on travel to Mexico...
Murphy Moves to Choice Hotels
Michael Murphy has joined Choice Hotels International Inc. as senior vice president of global sales...
Connors to Leave NBTA for His Own Private Idaho
Bill Connors, CTC, executive director and COO of the National Business Travel Association, will be leaving NBTA on June 15 to take over as president and CEO of the Boise Chamber of Commerce and its Economic Development Partnership...
NBTA Survey: Perception vs. Reality of Meeting Travel Cuts
Few companies canceled meetings in the first quarter simply because of perception issues, according to a recent survey by the National Business Travel Association...
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