Exploring the Future of CME Funding
A panel at the Task Force meeting examined four ways to fund continuing medical education....
Washington Headquarters Hotel Project Delayed
Washington, D.C.’s plan to build a headquarters hotel for the Walter E. Washington Convention Center is caught in a legal snag, but officials hope to resolve the issues and break ground by the end of the year...
New Sports and Meetings Authority Created For Washington, D.C.
The Washington Convention Center Authority, which owns and manages the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, has merged with the DC Sports and Entertainment Commission to create a new entity...
PCMA Announces 2009 Achievement Award Winners
The Professional Convention Management Association has announced its 2009 Achievement Award winners. The honorees will be recognized at the 54th PCMA Annual Meeting in Dallas, January 10–13, 2010. ...
Study Finds Not All Presenters Disclosed Payments at Medical Meeting
For varying reasons, almost a third of presenters, committee members, and board members at a 2008 medical meeting failed to disclose that they had received payments from device manufacturers, as required by the association hosting the meeting....
Commentary: The Shape of Things to Come
In the last few weeks, I’ve begun to wonder whether the meetings industry as we know it will survive the outside pressures that are lining up against face-to-face gatherings...
Checklist: 10 Ways to Save (But Not Kill the Experience!)
At The Motivation Show in late September, the agenda was filled with useful educational sessions, but perhaps none more so than “10 Ways to Cut Costs and Retain Quality”—the mantra of meeting professionals in this challenging economy...
Massachusetts Medical Meetings Business Still Healthy
The new Massachusetts pharma marketing law may be strict, but it’s not stopping medical meetings from choosing Boston....
GSK Changing Its CME Granting Process
Pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline revises its CME granting process to exclude MECCs....
Oct. 12 Deadline for SMMC Early-Bird Hotel Deal
The National Business Travel Association has sweetened the pot for people interested in taking the first week of its brand-new Strategic Meetings Management Certification course...
Speedier E-RFPs?
Elite Meetings International, a provider of integrated technology solutions for meeting and hospitality professionals, announced at The Motivation Show in Chicago last week a new electronic RFP process, called SpeedRFP...
Cruise Industry Veterans Launch Ship-Search Site
Joyce Landry and Jo Kling started their cruise-booking company, Landry & Kling, back in 1982. They’ve been at sea ever since...
Carlson Marketing Partners with Virtual Conference Provider
A new “Virtual Engagement Suite” announced by Carlson Marketing marries the virtual conference technology created by Menlo Park, Calif.–based Unisfair with Carlson’s meeting-management experience...
Commentary: Climate Change is the New Competitive Advantage
A funny thing is happening on the way to the global climate change summit in Copenhagen in December...
15 Steps for Managing Meeting Spend in Tough Economic Times
Thought leaders in the Strategic Meetings Management movement, the six-step process for identifying, leveraging, and managing a company’s meeting spend...
Amex Forecast: Higher Airfares, Lower Hotel Rates, and Greater Meeting Spend
Hotel rates will continue to decline while airfares will increase slightly in 2010. That was the projection from American Express’ 2010 Global Business Travel Forecast...
Hyatt Finds Work for Fired Housekeepers
Reacting to the outcry over the firing of 98 housekeepers at three Boston-area Hyatt hotels, Hyatt Hotels Corp. announced September 25 that it has found full-time jobs in the Boston market for the displaced workers....
Social Media: Are Meetings the Killer App?
When future historians look back on the early days of social media—the days we’re living through right now—they might find that some of the earliest “killer apps” for interactive technologies depended on the power of face-to-face meetings...
IAEE Publishes Pandemic Plan
Working with the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control, the International Association of Exhibitions and Events has published a guide to help event organizers—particularly not-for-profit associations—handle today’s H1N1 flu pandemic should it affect their shows...
New Research Quantifies the ROI of Meetings and Business Travel
Findings from two studies released last week, one commissioned by the U.S. Travel Association and one by the National Business Travel Association and American Express Business Travel, each show a positive correlation between business travel spend and the growth of corporate profitability...
Pfizer Settlement May Have CME Implications
Earlier this month, the largest settlement yet levied against a pharmaceutical company for illegal promotion of a drug was settled against Pfizer and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Co. The settlement could affect continuing medical education providers who receive unrestricted educational grants from the firm. ...
BCD M&I Announces Acquisition, Partnership
BCD Meetings & Incentives has made two strategic moves to strengthen its market position...
Using Virtual Technologies to Enhance Face-to-Face Meetings: A Free Webinar
Learn the language of videoconferencing, the kinds of meetings and events best suited to it, and the economies of different types of virtual technology in a free webinar organized by MeetingsNet on Tuesday, September 29, at 2 p.m. eastern time...
CIC Adds Voice to Meeting Industry PR Efforts
The Convention Industry Council has launched a public messaging task force to improve the image of meetings, the latest industry effort to battle the negative public perception of events and business travel...
Amsterdam RAI Center Offers Green Events; Opens New Sustainable Building
Exhibition and conference organizers headed to Amsterdam are now able to link up with Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre for help making their events at the convention center carbon-neutral...
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