Green Meetings Group Announces Oregon Chapter
The Green Meeting Industry Council is growing. The nonprofit organization has launched its first official affiliate organization, the GMIC Oregon Chapter, led by Megan Rooksby, American Express Corporate Meeting Solution...
Marriott and Starwood Announce Pay-Per-Use Telepresence
Having first explored the market for pay-per-use telepresence videoconferencing suites last fall, Cisco Systems last week announced a more extensive rollout of its technology in select hotels...
Mobile Tech Tools for Meetings and Trade Shows
The advent of the iPhone two years ago was a game-shifter. Rich mobile Web browsers with wireless broadband Internet access (in the iPhone and its multitude of clones) are now in the pockets or purses of most business travelers...
PCMA’s Ramsborg Appointed Professor at Kendall College
Glen C. Ramsborg, PhD, CMP, senior director, education, Professional Convention Management Association, and longtime medical meeting planner, is leaving PCMA at the end of the month to take a position as professor, Les Roches School of Hospitality Management, Kendall College, Chicago...
MPI Rolls Out Virtual Pass for July World Education Conference
Last week, with less than two weeks to go before its World Education Conference, Meeting Professionals International rolled out a Virtual Access Pass,” which allows members and nonmembers to sign up for a parallel online conference...
AMA Again Rejects CEJA Report
The American Medical Association once again sends the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs back to the drawing board on its commercial support report ...
PCMA and ACTE Form Strategic Alliance
After two years of consulting with each other on the content for their annual meetings, the Professional Convention Management Association and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives announced plans for a strategic alliance...
Don’t Fear the PhRMA Code Effect
Survey finds that physicians still value exhibits at medical meetings even without the giveaways....
Airlines Add Fees on Top of Fees
Airlines, in a seemingly never-ending bid to supplement their revenues, are adding yet again to an already dizzying array of fees...
Starwood Points Become Cash for PCMA Members
The Professional Convention Management Association has teamed up with Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide to offer a program that allows PCMA members to use Starpoints toward the purchase of PCMA offerings...
Marketing Gets Creative in Vegas and Indy
Two top destinations have put noteworthy twists on their marketing campaigns aimed at meeting executives...
The Active Network Unveils New “OnDemand” Event Management Tools
The Active Network Inc. has released ActiveEvents OnDemand, a scalable, Web-based event management solution for meeting professionals...
StarCite and Starwood Strike Partnership
Starwood Hotels & Resorts and StarCite, the Philadelphia-based meeting technology company, have agreed on a new partnership that will allow meeting planner’s electronic requests for proposal sent from StarCite’s online marketplace to directly connect with Starwood’s sales automation system...
E-Business Card Device to Be Put to the Test
Mingle360’s handheld networking tool, MingleStick, has been generating some buzz since it debuted last year, but its most significant introduction to the meetings industry may be next month at TS2...
No Gift Ban in Iowa
A proposed ban on gifts to physicians and other healthcare practitioners in Iowa was stripped out of the state’s healthcare reform bill before Gov. Chet Culver signed it into law on May 19...
NBTA-ACTE Merger Talks Illustrate Meetings Associations’ Challenges
The board of the directors of the National Business Travel Association voted last week to continue to pursue a merger with the Association of Corporate Travel Executives...
Administration Officials “Tuned In” to Meetings
The meetings industry has gotten the attention of the Obama administration and has a strong supporter in Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, according to a high-ranking official with the U.S. Office of Travel and Tourism Industries...
Face of Travel Winner Announced
"I can now say it—I am Paco and I am the face of travel!" That was a Twitter post from Paco Saldaña just before noon eastern time today...
VMS Realigns to Offer Marketing Solutions
VMS has hired a team of industry experts to provide outsourced marketing support to clients in the biotech, life sciences, pharmaceutical, and diagnostics industries...
Docs Put More Credence in Medical Exhibits
Physicians are less skeptical of information received at medical exhibitions than they are of marketing from pharmaceutical field sales representatives or medical journal advertisements...
Study Evaluates CME Outcomes
A study measuring the effectiveness of continuing medical education courses produced varying results for researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago...
Green Is as Green Does: The IMEX Awards
The 2009 IMEX exhibition, showcasing incentive travel, meetings, and event suppliers from around the globe, wrapped up at the end of May in Frankfurt, Germany...
NBTA Seeks Collaboration With Other Industry Associations
The National Business Travel Association, Alexandria, Va., has recently been in talks with two industry associations: Meeting Professionals International and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives...
New Treasury Rules: Meetings Dodge a Bullet
The meetings and travel industry was generally hailing the new executive compensation rules issued by the U.S. Treasury Department on June 10...
ESCA’s Electronic ID Badges Launch at Georgia World Congress Center
On July 1, the Georgia World Congress Center will be the first convention center to roll out the Worker Identification System...
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