Planning meetings and events outside the U.S. can be exciting—but it also can be stressful. In addition to language, time zones, contracting, and VAT issues, meeting professionals, like everyone else who travels to foreign lands, also have to ada...
I went to a fantastic, interactive, and tips-filled session at the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting in Detroit this summer on the topic of planning meetings outside the U.S. The august panel—Cameron Curtis, Courtesy Assoc...
Expert advice for managing risk at meetings outside the U.S.
What planners of international meetings need to know about currency, VAT, and visas
Building budgets is a difficult exercise in our industry: for events teams, procurement, or finance stakeholders in charge of business events spend. Likewise it is also a difficult exercise for convention centers, hotel chains, and meetings and...
Joshua L. Grimes, Esq.Just announced! Well-known meeting and hospitality industry attorney Joshua L. Grimes, Esq. will open MeetingsNet’s second annual Beyond Borders Summit, set for July 13 at the New York Marriott Eastside in New York City. BBS...
When you plan meetings internationally, you also are working with a world of difference when it comes to customs and etiquette. This infographic from CT Business Travel offers practical tips on how to approach business meetings globally, from han...
Three days after corporate, association, and third-party meeting planners with expertise in global programs got together for the Beyond Borders Summit at the JW Marriott Essex House in New York, a Malaysia Airlines was shot down over eastern Ukra...
But if you booked Europe for 2015, you won the value lottery.