May 1, 2007 CMI
Cover Story
Turning Meetings Upside Down
If Elliott Masie were king of the forest, the woods would be blanketed with Wi-Fi, every encounter between predator and prey would be televised, and the...
News & Info
JetBlue Goes After the Meetings Market
JetBlue Airways has launched a corporate meetings program, bucking a recent trend that has seen competitors including Southwest Airlines and Delta Air...
Pharma Forum Focuses on Planners' Expanding Roles
A common thread running through the sessions at the Third annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum was the growing importance of meeting professionals...
NBTA Builds Global Brand
The Alexandria, Va.-based National Business Travel Association has taken significant steps toward going global. Since April 2, the association has had...
more tax-deductible islands
The Netherlands Antilles which includes the islands of Curaao, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius has joined the list of destinations that,...
Free Hurricane Insurance Program Continues in Florida
After a particularly devastating hurricane season in 2004, Visit Florida, the state's tourism marketing arm, came up with a reassuring idea: free meeting...
Notes From a Closed-Door Session
Approximately 40 senior planners from more than 20 pharmaceutical companies conducted a closed-door summit during the Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners...
Take 5
IF YOU COULD BE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, WHERE WOULD YOU BE? As long as I'm with my family, it really doesn't matter where I am. Seeing things through my...
Meetings
Mini-Lectures for Learning
One Common Mistake that speakers make is to try to cram 10 days' worth of material into an hourlong lecture. A much better learning experience is created...
What's Hot in F&B
One of the most influential food and beverage trends is driven by attendees, who have become more sophisticated in food matters than they used to be....
Wild Ride
The skies were not friendly to travelers in 2006. And while they haven't been much kinder so far in 2007, some positive developments are in the air. Coming...
Laugh It Up
We've all heard the expression, laughter is the best medicine. But can it help to reduce stress, create a more productive workforce, and foster teambuilding?...
Blogging Travel
Blogs are all the rage, and you can be sure there's one (or 500) that matches your interest. E-conferencing? Try ConferZone's Conferblog.com. Marketing...
Incentives
Match Your Employees With the Right Reward
Maritz Inc., Fenton, Mo., has a new study out that analyzes employees based on the way they like to be recognized. After talking to 1,003 adults employed...
A Cut Above
Employee-recognition company Michael C. Fina Co. practices what it preaches when it comes to quality: The New York-based company has received ISO 9001...
Procurement’s involvement in incentive travel purchasing
Jack Eichhorn has seen both sides of the equation. Having made the shift about a year ago from meeting planner at another high-tech company to procurement...
Wikis and the culture of collaboration
Wikis are standard fare for technology conferences and what's hot with tech companies tends to spread fast. A wiki is a Web site that lets users easily...
Taking the Chat Virtual
The Meetings Community listserv, better known as MeCo, has launched a site in Second Life, the computer fantasy world created by San Francisco technology...
Corral Your Small Meetings Buy
Imagine it is midnight during a trip overseas, and your CEO wants to schedule an emergency board meeting in New York for the next day with lunch and a...
for the person who has everything
Zero Gravity Corp., the only FAA-approved provider of commercial weightless flights, has just begun marketing its flights through the Sharper Image. It's...
Employee Types: Who Wants What?
Do you know what motivates your employees? Here's a rundown of employee types from the new study by Maritz Inc. FREEDOM YEARNERS make up...
Sites
Hotels Bet on Gaming Growth
Donald Trump announced plans to build Tower II of the TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL & TOWER LAS VEGAS on the April 8 episode of The Apprentice. Tower II will...
Ritz-Carlton Debuts The Reserve Brand
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., LLC, will introduce a new brand, The Reserve, with the 2008 debut of Molasses Reef, a 125-room boutique hotel on West Caicos...
Atlantic/Caribbean
What's New Over the past few years, the Caribbean has weathered two kinds of storms: natural (hurricanes) and manmade (the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative)....
Incentive Canada
What's New Canada has no shortage of incentive possibilities. Cosmopolitan Toronto offers a vibrant theater-dominated arts scene; French-themed Montral...
Monorail Headed to McCarran
The Las Vegas Monorail Co. plans to extend its service to McCarran International Airport beginning in 2011. Plans include two stops at McCarran the first...
Harrah's Buyout
Harrah's Entertainment stockholders on April 5 approved the leveraged buyout of the gaming company by a partnership between two private equity firms....
Up Front
Missed Opportunities
I Recently Attended a meeting that should have been run by the attendees. It was intended to roll out a piece of research to the constituents, who happened...
brainstorming
Group Think Whether you and your meeting team need some new ideas or your attendees need to innovate, brainstorming is a potent technique for tapping...
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