Commentary: A Peak-Oil Survival Kit for Meetings
There was a moment during the Green Meeting Industry Council’s 2011 Sustainable Meetings Conference when more than 300 meeting professionals glimpsed the end of the world as they’ve known it....
Roger Dow Honored With Spirit of Hospitality Award
The meetings, travel, and tourism community paid tribute to Roger Dow, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, bestowing him with the Spirit of Hospitality Award....
One MetLife: How to Unite Employees After an Acquisition
U.S. powerhouse MetLife became a global force in life insurance when its deal to acquire Alico, formerly part of AIG, was finalized late last year. We’ve got the story of how tens of thousands of legacy MetLife and Alico employees around the world were brought together as colleagues in a new enterprise—One MetLife....
FICP Northeast 2011 Winter Meeting Big on Practical Tips
Planners and hospitality partners learned about demonstrating their value at the Northeast Region 2011 Winter Meeting in Boston....
New Digital Events Strategist Certification to Launch
The Virtual Edge Institute will launch a program in June to train and certify event marketers, meeting professionals, trade show managers, and others in the fast-growing—and fast-changing—field of digital events. ...
Study Measures Revenue Boost From Business Travel
The job of a travel manager isn’t just to drive down business travel costs, but also to know how to use travel to drive top-line growth. ...
Commentary: More Work Ahead on Economic Impact
With the release of the Convention Industry Council’s economic significance study, U.S. meeting professionals can confidently claim to be part of an industry that contributes more to the national economy than auto manufacturing. ...
Meetings Industry Measured at $263 Billion, Says Major New Report
The new Economic Significance of Meetings to the U.S. Economy study estimates that meetings generated $263 billion in direct spending, supported 1.7 million jobs, and contributed $106 billion to the gross domestic product. ...
AIME 2011 Sees 32 Percent Increase in Visitors
The Asia-Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo in Melbourne, Australia, drew more exhibitors, too....
10 TTAB Recommendations for a Better Visa Process
International visitors to the U.S. increased about 10 percent last year compared to 2009, but the U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board says changes in U.S. visa policy and customer service are needed....
Commentary: EventCamp Must Keep Evolving
The EventCamp conferences have covered a lot of ground since the group’s first meeting in New York in February 2010. But great success breeds greater expectations. ...
Uniform Fiduciary Standard: What Does It Mean for Meetings?
The SEC believes all those who offer personalized investment advice should put their clients' financial interests above their own. ...
Legal Ease by James Goldberg: Social Media and the Law
If you plan to use social media to promote your meetings, review your organization’s risk management policies before you go online....
CSR at Meetings: The Case for Not Doing Something
Thrivent Financial’s Director of Event Planning and Recognition Dan Young, CMP, had an epiphany several years ago. He weighed the time, money, and effort involved in setting up a community service activity at a meeting against the value of the project to the recipient organization and the benefit to Thrivent meeting attendees, and found the equation out of balance....
Commentary: A Slight Overshoot on Virtual Events
Virtual platform provider ON24 combined fact with fiction early this year when it critiqued the green performance of the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show....
Commentary: A "Shush" Heard Around the Room
It was a "shush" that resonated across a roomful of meeting and association professionals....
Demonstrate Your Value: 12 Big Ideas from FICP Northeast
The Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Northeast Winter Meeting kicked off a yearlong educational theme at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston....
Your Chance to Be Fearless: Attend EventCamp February 11–13
Specifically designed for event professionals looking to integrate technology and new media into their meetings and special events, EventCamp is "a playground for creativity" and "an experiment in meeting planning."...
IMEX America Lands U.S. Travel as Promotion Partner
IMEX America, the new meeting and incentive industry exhibition launching in Las Vegas in October, has another high-profile partner, the U.S. Travel Association....
MPI Opens Web Content to Nonmember Planners
In an effort to bring more meeting planners into its online community, Meeting Professionals International announced today that it will offer free access to many of the services that, until now, were reserved for members only....
CIC Examines Costs of Event Spec Exchanges
Inefficient, inaccurate, and costly: That may be the best way to describe communications between meeting professionals and hotels, say leaders at the Convention Industry Council....
Sponsorship Dollars for Events Climb in 2010
For the many organizations that see sponsorships as a critical revenue stream, the news is good: Sponsor purse strings are loosening. ...
Green Meeting Association Aims for Innovative Conference Design
The Green Meeting Industry Council is promising some outside-the-box programming at its annual Sustainable Meetings Conference, February 20–23 in Portland, Ore. ...
Trend Spotting for Meeting Planners: Oil, AA, SMM, CEOs
The price of meetings is going up—and not just because of increased demand and the swing to the seller’s market. StarCite's Kevin Iwamoto has his eye on the price of oil, too, and the move by American Airlines to reduce its own distribution costs thereby potentially increasing your booking costs. Here's how it could play out—and why you must be prepared to manage another round of meeting and travel spending cuts....
Commentary: I Have Seen the Future
Last week, I saw the future of meeting venues.
Just 88 days before the April opening date for the new Ottawa Convention Centre, members of the OCC Advisory Board donned hard hats, steel-toed boots, reflective vests, and safety glasses to tour a project for which the local meetings industry had been fighting, lobbying, and begging for 15 years....
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