November 1, 2005 CMI
Upfront
Let Them Choose
If I found one consistent theme as I walked the floor of the Motivation Show in late September, it was choice. Never have so many products been designed...
News & Info
First Delta, Now US Airways
Almost one year after Delta Air Lines discontinued its Meeting Network, US Airways newly merged with America West is scaling back its meeting product....
TSA's Registered Traveler Ends
The Transportation Security Administration has ended the 14-month Registered Traveler Program, which expedited security screenings at five major airports...
Listen Up: Industry Issues on Your iPod
In mid-October, BTC Radio, Talking Business Travel joined a growing list of Internet radio broadcasts aimed at meeting and travel industry pros. The show...
EventMingle Looks for Beta Testers
The programmers at Specialty Match Network are still building out the Web pages for EventMingle, a new online tool to connect attendees with exhibitors...
Meetings
Partner Power
Preferred suppliers, once a rarity in corporate meeting departments, are catching on, according to a new study by American Express Global Corporate Services....
The Amazing Race, Corporate-Style
Picture 20 lawyers scrambling through Port Townsend, Wash., looking for a colorful wooden fish a city landmark. It's all part of the Amazing Race, the...
Contract Clause for Donating Leftover Food
Clause: In the event that the Group's numbers for any food functions fall below the guaranteed numbers for which the Hotel purchased food, Hotel agrees...
How Big Are Most Meetings?
According to WorldTravel BTI's Annual Benchmark Survey, 55 percent of corporate meetings have between 50 and 250 attendees; 41 percent have fewer than...
Inside Job
University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor, had held a summer picnic as far back as people could remember. When we began questioning...
Incentives
Cash? Gift? Travel? It All Depends on Your Goals
Many companies miss the mark with employee incentives when they fail to match their motives with the right rewards. The goal of new research from the...
Pick Your Dream
Who knew that the experience of a lifetime would come in a slick silver box with a portable camera (with a silver finish, of course) to capture the memories?...
Everyone Wins
CTX, an IT consulting firm based in Cabin John, Md., gives Palm Pilots to employees who complete 16 class credits of on-site training, and is creating...
2005 Motivation Show: The Buzz from the Show Floor
Private Jet Travel: New Preferred-Pricing Program Private Jet Services Group, a Hampton, N.H. based air charter company with first-class and coach-configured...
Holiday Splash
This year, choose creative holiday gifts that are sure to make a splash with customers and top performers. Buy tickets to the symphony and have a messenger...
Technology
Get Some Recognition
Is your meeting or incentive Web site a thing of beauty? The Webby Awards judges just might agree. The competition for excellence in Web sites, now in...
2005—Vivien, meeting room design software
EIBTM, an exhibition for the incentive, business travel, and meeting industry, is in its sixth year sponsoring the Worldwide Technology Watch, a competition...
Meeting and Travel RFP Tools to Partner
In a move to help clients leverage their total hospitality spend meetings and transient travel meeting technology provider StarCite Inc. announced in...
Pharma Meeting Pro Becomes Consultant for Tech Co.
When Lisa Palmeri sat on the OnVantage customer advisory board as a meeting professional from Abbott Laboratories, the group was in agreement that forming...
Heart Murmur
Planners who source meeting facilities using OnVantage's online database (www.mpoint.com) will now get information about some facilities' readiness for...
Sites
Mississippi to Rebuild with Land-based Casinos
While much attention has been focused on the damage to New Orleans, the meetings and tourism infrastructure of the Mississippi Gulf Coast region took...
News from the Casinos
The recent merger of Harrah's Entertainment with Caesars Entertainment provides more than 1 million square feet of meeting space in Las Vegas at the RIO...
B&B-Style Gaming Hotel
The Madison House at Sands Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City offers groups a B&B atmosphere just steps from the Boardwalk. Reopened after a $7 million...
Pennsylvania allows casinos
In Pennsylvania, Gov. Ed Rendell signed a bill in July that allows for 14 casinos: seven at racetracks, five standalone slot parlors, and two resort-hotel...
Mountain Meetings
What's new: Spas are hot across the nation, and the resorts of the Rocky Mountains are taking advantage of the trend. The older resorts of the area grew...
Hampton, Va.
The Hampton Roads Convention Center, Hampton, Va., opened in May, just 20 minutes from Norfolk (Va.) International Airport. With its sail-like canopy...
Last Word
impersonator
What's the difference? Look-alikes are typically hired for meet-and-greets for photos and usually don't serve as entertainment beyond the fun of having...
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