Most Exhibitors Have Cut Back, Some With Regrets
Four out of five exhibitors (81 percent) have scaled back their trade show participation over the past year due to the economy, and many are regretting their decision, according to a new report from Champion Exposition Services....
OMG 27% of U R Tweeting!
Survey reveals meeting professionals' use of social media, smartphones, and blogs....
Meeting Association Powwow Planned
Not Your Father's ASAE
Putting Meetings and Travel Center Stage at Mid-Term Elections
Meetings industry professionals have an opportunity to ask lawmakers such as Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark.; and Florida Governor Charlie Crist about their positions on travel and meetings-related issues through U.S. Travel's new initiative that seeks to thrust the industry into the 2010 elections....
Commentary: JetBlue's Spin Control Gets Half the Point
After flight attendant Steven Slater took his storied slide to freedom from a JetBlue aircraft at JFK International Airport August 9, the company won praise for its surprisingly understated response to the story....
BestCities Celebrates 10th Year, Names New Chairwoman
Eight worldwide destination marketing organizations have spent 10 years creating service standards and marketing best practices for international meetings....
International Business Travel on the Upswing
Despite a dramatic decrease in the number of U.S. business travelers headed overseas in 2009, the first four months of 2010 are showing signs of life....
Seoul, London, and Sydney Create Meetings Partnership
The Future Convention Cities Intitiative will gather top worldwide meeting destinations to share research best practices....
Harvard Medical School Revises Conflicts Policy
The Harvard Medical School’s Faculty of Medicine Committee on Conflicts of Interest issued a report last month on its review of the school’s 20-year-old COI policy. ...
ACCME Board Approves Complaint Process Revision
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s Board of Directors voted at its July meeting to approve a revised process for handling complaints regarding ACCME-accredited providers....
Texts and the City: MPI New England Loves SCVNGR Event
For this year’s annual summer outing, the New England Chapter of Meeting Professionals International found an activity that engaged both buyers and suppliers, encouraged networking and interaction, was on the cutting edge of technology—and also got high marks for being a blast. Check it out....
Best and Worst Cities for Travel Taxes: New NBTA Study
The National Business Travel Association Foundation and Concur, the Redmond, Wash.-based provider of spend-management services, have produced their annual report on taxes and fees on travel services, revealing the U.S. cities with the highest and lowest tax burden. ...
App Overload? New Portal Sorts Them for Meeting Pros
A new site focused on smartphone apps for meeting professionals has just launched at MeetingApps.com. The portal, listing about 500 apps, was created by Kirsten Strand, CMP, CITE, CMM, CEO at Invenia, a Vancouver, British Columbia–based site selection and meeting consultancy....
7 Reasons Why Organizers Need to Develop Meeting Apps Now
Technology forecaster and business strategist Daniel Burrus believes that meeting planners who aren’t developing mobile technology apps (short for applications) are making a big mistake. ...
Tool Time: Travel Sites, Travel Apps, Travel Ease
On the road again. Summertime is travel time for so many of us, which makes it a great time to share some Web tools and phone apps designed to help us travel more efficiently, whether for planning meetings, attending meetings, or for pleasure trips....
Virtual Meeting Use: It’s Nearly Unanimous
A remarkable 96 percent of meeting and event planners report that their organizations use virtual meetings solutions—either Web-based meetings, videoconferencing, or TelePresence. That finding comes from a comprehensive and wide-ranging study on meeting policy and spending released earlier this summer by travel-management giant Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Minnetonka, Minn. ...
The Promise of Hybrid Meetings
For Christopher Gribbs, managing director, convention, at the American Institute of Architects, the “aha!” moment for the potential of virtual meetings came at the 2009 AIA Annual Conference in San Francisco....
NBTA Is Abuzz About SMM; Name Change
Strategic meetings management has been a recurring theme at the National Business Travel Association International Convention and Exposition, which opened Sunday in Houston. ...
How Would a UAE BlackBerry Ban Affect Meetings?
Early this month, the United Arab Emirates, home of up-and-coming meeting, convention, and incentive destinations Dubai and Abu Dhabi, announced that it would shut down BlackBerry data service on October 11 if an agreement isn't reached that allows the country's regulators to tap into encrypted BlackBerry messages. ...
Five Insider Tips to L.A.
Headed to ASAE's annual meeting in L.A.? We've got some tips for your time outside the meeting room....
MPI WEC 2010: Tools, Tips, and Trade Shows
MPI's 2010 annual congress focused on sustainability, the value of meetings, and careers....
Registered Traveler: Back in the Fast Lane?
Registered Traveler, the program created by the Transportation Security Administration then run by the private sector to move pre-screened travelers quickly through airport security, is set to relaunch after going belly up a year ago. Indianapolis Airport Authority, working with iQueue Priority Access, will begin fast-lane service on August 16....
The Promise of Hybrid Meetings
The Promise—and the Challenge—of Blending Live and Virtual Events...
NBTA Members and WSJ Readers Pick Top Business Travel Innovations
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