Shangri-La Expands to North America, Europe
Meeting and incentive groups who recognize Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts as Asia’s leading luxury hotel group don’t have too much longer to wait for the brand to debut in North America and Europe. In 2008, the first Canadian property will open in...
Unions Settle with Vegas Hilton, Set Deadlines for Remaining Hotels
The Culinary Workers Local 226 and the Bartenders Union Local 165, both based in Las Vegas, agreed to a five-year collective bargaining agreement with the Las Vegas Hilton, a major convention property in the city...
Many Want Green Travel, but Most Won’t Spend Extra Green
Roughly half of all Americans are more likely to choose airlines, hotels, and rental car companies that are environmentally responsible, but not if the price tag is too high...
CMPs Want Advanced Designation, More Online Training, Survey Says
Certified Meeting Professionals, while mostly satisfied with the value they get from achieving this professional designation, are looking for improvements to the program, according to a new survey of current and past CMPs commissioned by the Convention Industry Council...
New Quick-Start Group Hotel Reservations Product
Passkey International Inc., Quincy, Mass., which offers an Internet-based technology that allows hotels and planners to manage group hotel reservations, has come out with a new product called EventExpress that offers...
San Francisco Opens Registered Traveler Lanes
San Francisco International Airport in mid-September opened Registered Traveler lanes designed to speed enrolled travelers through airport security. ...
MPI Revamps, Renames 2008 PEC-Europe
Meeting Professionals International is making changes to its Professional Education Conference-Europe for 2008—including a new name. ...
Passports Needed Again for Western Hemisphere Travel
After a four-month reprieve, U.S. citizens must again present a passport when flying to and from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Bermuda....
Incentives in Corporate America: “a Whopping, Major-League Industry”
The benchmarks are in, and the numbers are huge: U.S. companies spent $46 billion on travel and merchandise incentives in 2006, according to a study sponsored by the Incentive Federation, an umbrella organization that conducts lobbying and research efforts on behalf of the incentive industry....
MeCo Hosts First Chat Lesson in Second Life
Approximately 20 avatars gathered in Second Life on September 20, on the lawn of the MeCo Mansion for the Meetings Community listserv’s first Chat Lesson in the virtual online world...
Meeting and Hospitality Industry Leaders Petition Congress
More than 70 U.S. companies and organizations--including meetings industry associations, convention and visitors bureaus, and hotels--signed a petition urging Congress to pass the Travel Promotion Act of 2007....
Joint Commission Explores the Convention Center/CVB Relationship
A yearlong study by a coalition of convention center managers and convention and visitors bureau executives culminated in the release of a 14-page report on how the two entities can work together most effectively to serve the meetings and conventions industry....
OSI Settles Meeting Flap
Osram Sylvania Inc. will hold its annual national sales meeting at the Boca Raton Resort & Club after all....
Massachusetts: The Next Gaming Mecca?
Could Massachusetts become the next big gaming destination?...
“Sunshine” Law Would Require Pharma Companies to Post Payments to Docs
A new bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would require pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers to disclose the amount of money they give to doctors through payments, gifts, honoraria, travel, and other means....
Hurricanes Make Lots of Noise, Little Tourism Damage
It's been a relatively quiet hurricane season for the U.S., but busier in the Caribbean and Mexico. Still, though prepared for the worst as storms approached, the resorts in those areas got off very easy....
Las Vegas Workers Authorize Strike; MGM Mirage Settles
Some 10,000 culinary workers and bartenders in Las Vegas voted last week to authorize a strike, if necessary, in their effort to resolve their contract dispute with 14 Las Vegas casino resorts. ...
Criticism of New Supplier Directory Brings Fast MPI Response
Meeting Professionals International launched its new Global Marketplace September 11, with the intention of opening up the supplier directory to nonmembers for a nominal annual fee. Within 24 hours, that plan had been changed, after an outcry from members....
Amex/StarCite Technology Integration
Companies that bill their meeting expenses to the American Express card and use the StarCite meeting spend management tool heard some noteworthy news last week: The companies are integrating those products, allowing—among other things—for planners to reconcile the charges without rekeying them into the spend management tool....
Bridge the (Generation) Gap
Differences among the generations were front of mind at the Krisam Group Executive Summit, held September 6 to 9 at the Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach in Cancun...
How to Stay Green on the Road
Randal Savage, corporate director, rooms, at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, White Plains, N.Y., has seen and heard it all. ...
McCormick Place West Opens for Business
It's called an addition, but the just-opened McCormick Place West in Chicago is more like a stand-alone, self-contained, 740,000-square-foot convention center, connected by an enclosed walkway to the 2.2-million-square-foot McCormick Place in Chicago...
Morial Nixes Expansion, Maps Upgrades
After years of uncertainty and delay, the Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority Board of Commissioners has abandoned efforts to expand the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, and instead plans to redirect some of the funds approved for the Phase IV expansion plan to renovate and upgrade existing space in the convention center...
New Venetian Opens in Macau
If it’s not Vegas, it must be … Macau? This tiny Chinese peninsula 37 miles southwest of Hong Kong, which includes the city of the same name, surpassed the gaming revenue of the Las Vegas Strip in 2006 and saw the opening August 28 of The Venetian Macao, billed as the world’s biggest casino...
Getting a Handle on Housing
Meeting planners, convention and visitors bureau executives, and hoteliers gathered last week at the Passkey Housing Forum in Boston to hash out how to get a handle on some of today’s tough conference housing challenges...
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