October 1, 2006 CMI
Cover Story
Balancing Act
Sure, Krista Reasoner knew life would change when her son, Noah, was born. She had watched family and friends and co-workers have kids, and they had always...
Upfront
Tell It Like It Is
I recently moderated a panel and roundtable discussion for The Krisam Group's first Executive Summit, held September 7-10 in Las Vegas (for more, see...
News & Info
Experient Sums Up Conferon Brands
Conferon Global Services, Twinsburg, Ohio, the country's largest independent meeting planning and events management company, has a new name: Experient...
New Analysis of How Marketing Managers Use Meetings
EventView 2006, the fifth annual study of how senior marketing professionals use meetings and events in their marketing mix, documents a slight decrease...
unions/hotels on a roll
One by one, hotel worker contracts are being settled in major convention cities. In September, hoteliers and Unite Here, the union representing workers,...
Hotels and Planners Tackle Tough Questions at Krisam Summit
No topic was too hot to handle at the Krisam Group's first Executive Summit, held September 7-10 at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. At...
Deadline Met
Most if not all of the 27 visa waiver countries are going to meet this month's biometric passport requirement deadline. These machine-readable passports...
Corporate Meetings Buoy New Orleans
With Holes in the booking calendar left by Hurricane Katrina cancellations, New Orleans hoteliers are relying on corporate meetings to fill some of the...
EIBTM Expands Education and Exhibitor Reach
EIBTM, The International meeting and incentive exhibition held each year at the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain, will be hoping to top its 2005 numbers...
Ejecting People from a Facility
Clause: Convention Center (Center) reserves the right to eject persons from the Center at its discretion. Effect: Some planners find this language objectionable...
Meetings
Peeper Perspectives
Bill Peeper wore many hats when he first became president of the Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau in 1984. He had to the staff consisted...
Web Games from Palace
Shooting cannonballs and deciphering clues is educational. At least at Palace Resorts' new online games, which take an unconventional approach to showing...
Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite
Every year, it seems, there's a news story about bedbugs in this or that hotel. Well, if you don't think hoteliers take this problem seriously, think...
New Five-Step Approach to Meeting ROI
Over the past few years, many methods of calculating the return on investment of meetings have been rolled out in an effort to give stakeholders tangible...
Managing Meeting Pros, Part 2
How can meeting department managers keep their independent, world-traveling, Type A planners challenged and motivated? Last issue, five readers shared...
Incentives
Gift Cards Find Their Place
From Blockbuster to Borders, Staples to Sephora: Which retailer will be next to develop a gift card? Just ask Rich Killian, incoming president of the...
Crystal Memories
Glass painter Marj Kocher is used to and when she demonstrates her craft. The Auburn, Calif. based artist paints on French crystal goblets, martini glasses,...
Did You Say Mushrooms?
You might be surprised at what you find in Maritz Incentives' Global Rewards Catalog. This new online tool offers merchandise tailored to the user's country,...
An Exploratory Study of Sales Incentive Programs, by the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement
In the first of a series of studies on incentives, the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement concluded what the industry has been touting...
Camp Fired Up
When Caryn Taylor-Lucia, CMP, and Shelly Tsipori, CMP, of SEI bought out The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation, and transformed it into a summer...
Everyone Wins
There's no single way to motivate a 23-year-old who views work as a hobby and a 45-year-old Type A personality who wants everyone in the company to know...
Sites
New and Renovated Venues
LAKEWAY RESORT AND SPA near Austin, Texas, is completing a multimillion-dollar renovation. The resort features 168 guest rooms, a spa, 10 meeting rooms,...
On Location: Ecuador: More than the Galapagos
First, maybe you weren't aware that the Galapagos Islands were part of Ecuador. Here are some other things you might not know: Ecuador is the second-smallest...
Vroom, Vroom
Mercedes-Benz World, in Weybridge, Surrey, England, is set to open this month. Conference facilities at the new multimillion-dollar facility include flexible...
10 Big Apple Ideas
For a city with an area just shy of 24 square miles, New York not only packs in millions of residents (about 8 million, in fact) but also thousands of...
Mid-South States
What's New Louisiana and Mississippi, in the heart of the Mid-South region, took a serious blow from Hurricane Katrina last year. But the region is coming...
Last Word
walkie-talkie
What to Ask When renting or purchasing walkie-talkies to keep in touch with staff during your big events, make sure to ask about battery life and the...
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Creating Green-Meetings Standards
An industrywide effort to produce achievable, voluntary standards for greener meetings and events is under way. The Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX), an initiative of the Convention Industry Council, is working with the Environmental Protection Agency and ASTM International Standards to create baseline guidelines that both meeting managers and the hospitality community can embrace. Join us for a free webinar.
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