EIBTM Honors Event Company for Top ROI Measurement
EIBTM, the European Incentive, Business Travel & Meetings exhibition, which wrapped up in December in Barcelona, has awarded a Finnish event-management company top honors for its use of ROI Methodology to measure the success of a client's meeting. Here's how it worked. ...
International Meetings Outlook: U.S. Organizations Sticking Close to Home
International meeting and incentive destinations suffered through major declines in group business in 2009, and the outlook is not much better for 2010, according to two recent reports. ...
New Bills in New York and Minnesota Could Affect Medical Meetings
New York State Gov. David Paterson introduced legislation in his 2010-2011 budget that proposes restrictions on interactions between industry and healthcare professionals, which could affect continuing medical education programs in the state. Another bill, in the Minnesota state legislature, also could have an impact on medical meetings. ...
What Docs Really Want in an Exhibit Hall
A new study released at the 2010 Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association Healthcare Convention Marketing Summit in January found that docs still consider trade shows an important way to see everything related to their specialty in one place, at one time....
Jointly Sponsored CME: How to Handle Compliance Concerns
Case study: What to do if your society doesn't have a formal compliance program for its jointly sponsored CME....
Snow Cancels ASAE Tech Conference, but New Instant Event Emerges
The massive snowstorm that hit the East Coast this week caused the American Society for Association Executives and the Center for Association Leadership to cancel its February 10–12 Technology Conference and Expo at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. However, all was not lost. ...
Be in Your Attendee’s Pocket: Smart-Phone Apps for Meetings
9 Must-Have Apps for Meeting Pros
As long as you're dragging that smart phone everywhere you go, you may as well put it to work. We've rounded up nine must-have apps for meeting professionals (and a few more just for fun). All are built for the iPhone, but BlackBerry users take heart: some comparable applications are out there. ...
Book Review: The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande, author of numerous articles in The New Yorker magazine and of the books Complications and Better, makes a powerful case that the humble checklist should be elevated to a new level of importance in healthcare in his new book, The Checklist Manifesto. ...
Homeland Security Charged with Controlling Meeting Spend
The U.S. Office of Inspector General is urging the Department of Homeland Security to have greater oversight and controls over money spent on conferences...
DMCs Battle Against Burdensome Taxes
DMCs asking for industry support...
Meetings and Incentives Partners With Travelocity Business
Meetings and Incentives, the Caledonia, Wis.-based meetings management company, will partner with corporate travel management company giant Travelocity Business....
Kuoni Buys TBA Global’s U.S. Destination Management Division
You'll soon get to know Kuoni—the high-end leisure travel and tour company that just purchased the U.S. destination management operations of TBA Global. We spoke with the CEO....
Major Meeting Player HelmsBriscoe Targets Association Business
HelmsBriscoe associates booked 18,000 meetings in 2009 for a total of 3 million room nights. HB recently brought on a new executive to to boost its presence among associations....
New Travel Regulation for International Visitors Takes Effect
Effective January 20, inbound travelers to the United States from Visa Waiver Program countries may be denied boarding by the airlines if they haven’t complied with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. ...
The 2009 Hotel Scene: How Bad Was It?
Most Procurement Managers Don't "Get" Meetings Yet: ISM-NBTA Summit
The 175 attendees at the recent joint summit between the Institute for Supply Management and National Business Travel Association were the elite few taking the leap into not only managing their companies' business travel but also getting their arms around meeting spend. ...
Commentary: The Costs of Security Theater
At least one good thing resulted from the Christmas Day incident when would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 into Detroit. Finally, the phrase "security theater" has made its way into the public lexicon to describe the billions of dollars governments have spent slamming barn doors shut after the livestock have left the premises. ...
Snapshot of HelmsBriscoe in 2009: 18,000 Programs, 3 Million Room Nights
HelmsBriscoe has grown from a innovative idea in 1992 to a major force in the meetings industry. Here's a look inside the company's Annual Business Conference. ...
Aria Resort: Design and Service Take Center Stage
Walking into the Aria Resort & Casino, in the new $8.5 billion CityCenter complex in Las Vegas, is not like walking into any other casino-based resort in the city. The casino, even at 150,000 square feet, does not dominate. You don’t even see it at first. What stands out is design, art, architecture, the fact that this place is really interesting. ...
What Happens in Vegas Stays in … Budget
Planners concerned about the perception of Las Vegas as a meeting destination might try pitching the city as the biggest value in meetings right now. Room rates remain low, even as the hotel towers keep rising in the desert....
New Convention Center and Medical Mart Coming to Nashville
The Nashville Metro Council voted overwhelmingly to approve financing for the construction of the new Music City Center after a long and, at times, contentious debate. The approval of the new convention center also means that plans will go forward for the Nashville Medical Trade Center—a permanent medical trade show—at the site of the existing Nashville Convention Center. ...
Lawsuits Delay Construction of D.C. Headquarters Hotel
The proposed Marriott Marquis convention center hotel in Washington has been delayed in the courts by a spate of lawsuits. Months after one of the losing developers, JBG Properties Inc., filed a suit against the Washington Convention and Sports Authority for contracting practices, both Marriott and WSCA have responded with legal actions against JBG. ...
Editorial: Healthcare Reform in the Aftermath of the Mass. Special Election
We caught up with Kim Slocum, president of KDS Consulting LLC, a healthcare consulting firm in West Chester, Pa., the morning after the election to get his reaction and find out how the meetings and the life sciences industry might be affected by this electoral turn of events. ...
Certification Board Names New Members
The National Commission for Certification of CME Professionals (NC-CME) recently named Dennis K. Wentz, MD, FACPE, CCMEP, to the position of president-elect....
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