Treasury Department TARP Guidelines Target Meetings
The Treasury Department has released new guidelines on executive compensation and other expenditures—including provisions related to meetings and travel—for companies participating in the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the name given to the $700 billion government bailout program devised by the Bush Administration last fall. ...
MeCo Listserv to Incorporate as Association
The Meetings Community, the three-year-old, volunteer-driven meetings-industry listserv and Web site, plans to incorporate as a non-profit association before the end of the year....
MPI’s MeetDifferent Tackles New Treasury Regs, More
How to survive the current economic crisis was a running theme of the opening general session at Meeting Professionals International’s MeetDifferent conference, which kicked off on Sunday. ...
Wells Fargo Strikes Back
Wells Fargo is actively defending itself against what it calls “intentionally misleading” press reports that forced it to cancel a four-day business and recognition event scheduled for Las Vegas....
Industry Speaks Out On Meetings Oversight
New oversight regulations for financial institutions that receive money from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief Program has the meetings industry speaking out to defend the value of conferences and events. ...
Meeting Management Lags Travel Management, Study Finds
The trend in large corporations is toward “strategic meetings management,” meaning that enterprise meeting spend gets tracked and leveraged, the request-for-proposal process is managed according to company policy, and contracting is centralized to eliminate as much risk as possible. ...
Global Events Partners Acquires Atlanta Arrangements, Appoints GEP Utah CEO
Global Events Partners, a partnership of destination management companies, announced it has acquired Atlanta Arrangements Inc., a DMC that has been operating in Atlanta for 40 years...
Marriott Adds Online Training for Third-Party Planners
Marriott International launched a new online training program for third-party meeting planners this week called Meetings Excellence!, which earns planners certification as a “Marriott Meeting Professional.” ...
Expansion and Light Rail Open in Phoenix
With an expanded convention center, a new 1,000-room hotel, and the grand opening of a light-rail system connecting the convention center to downtown, the suburbs, and the airport, Phoenix begins a new era as a convention destination....
Massachusetts Law Hits Medical Conventions
Pending legislation in Massachusetts that would ban gifts and giveaways at medical conventions and restrict pharmaceutical and medical device company marketing practices has caused at least one medical society to cancel a meeting in Boston and several others to scratch Boston off their lists of potential meeting sites....
Cleveland Picks Site for New Convention Center
After months of debate over the location of Cleveland’s new convention center and medical mart, Cuyahoga County commissioners and Merchandise Mart Properties Inc., the project's private-sector developer, announced last week that they would build the new development at the site of the current city-owned convention center site and its adjacent green space in downtown Cleveland....
Making Connections in Europe, Australia
There’s a new conference taking place in Europe that promises to offer an effective platform for sharing the trends and challenges in the meetings industry. ...
Hedging Bets on Airfare
One of the responsibilities of a good meeting manager or corporate travel buyer is making informed buying decisions when it comes to air travel. ...
Survey Shows Explosive Growth for Virtual Events in 2009
ON24 Inc., a supplier of webcasting and virtual-event solutions, last week released the results of an online survey it conducted in December of more than 300 enterprise business executives about their plans to attend or host live trade shows, conventions, and sales training seminars in 2009 versus their use of virtual events....
Airlines and the Economy: Hot Topics at PCMA
They may not be able to get you out of the dreaded middle seat, but the heads of two major airlines, speaking at the recent Professional Convention Management Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, told meeting planners that they want to help get their attendees to their next meeting. ...
Industry to Work Together to Prove Power of Meetings
Leaders from across the meetings industry gathered Monday in New Orleans to launch an advocacy and research initiative to determine the economic impact of the meetings industry. ...
New Online Application Required for Certain Overseas Visitors
As of yesterday, January 12, all nationals and citizens of Visa Waiver Program countries are required by law to obtain a travel authorization prior to traveling to the U.S., instead of filling out paper forms at the airport. ...
Sneak Peak: FutureWatch 2009
The preliminary results from Meeting Professionals International’s annual membership survey, FutureWatch 2009, are in—and all signs point to meetings taking a beating in the year ahead. ...
A Golf Mecca in the Riviera Maya
When Jack Nicklaus first started coming to Cancun and the Riviera Maya, he recognized two characteristics that would make that part of Mexico’s Yucatan ideal for golf. ...
San Diego Boycott Ongoing, but Effect “Negligible”
An ongoing boycott of the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego has led to the loss of some group business, according to a hotel spokesman....
In the Clink
One of Boston’s hottest new spots, The Liberty Hotel is carved out of the city’s infamous Charles Street Jail...
An Analysis of the Economy’s Impact on Meetings and Incentives by Market Segment
MeetingsNet magazines conducted online surveys/polls of readers to gauge the effects of the economic downturn on their meetings and incentives. ...
Site Celebrates the 2008 Crystals
During its international conference last week in Montreux, Switzerland, Site awarded the highest of honors in the incentive industry—the Crystal Awards—to 15 companies....
Rx for Networking Phobia
The concept is straightforward: Find someone you don’t know at the conference cocktail reception and strike up business-related small talk. But as most people will admit, networking is not easy....
Economy Curtails Physicians' CME Travel
The tumbling economy and higher cost of travel are causing physicians to rethink their plans to attend out-of-town meetings, according to Medical Meetings Physicians' CME Preferences Survey....
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