2012: The Year of Integration—or, Solving Problems by Making Them Bigger
Trends Affecting the Future of CME
A Q&A with one of the authors of a new Pri-Med White Paper that examines how educational, healthcare, and practice trends are shaping the future of CME....
Future Convention Cities Initiative Members Gather During COP17
One of the Future Convention Cities Initiative member cities—Durban, South Africa—has just wrapped up successfully hosting the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...
Airfare Hikes Expected in 2012
EIBTM 2011: Where Tradition Met the Future
Attracting more than 9,200 visitors and hosted buyers to Barcelona in early December, EIBTM marked an attendance increase of 10 percent over 2010....
The New China Is as Enthralling as the Ancient One
The Great Wall, the Forbidden City—plus modern art and microbrews. Check out the new China....
Do New VAT Rules Amount to a “Net Plus” or “Not Much” for U.S. Meeting Planners?
The bottom line: VAT reclaim still too complex for you to go it alone....
Will Travel Be the Savior for European Economies?
Tourism seems to be the only bright spot for European countries these days....
2011 Strong for Hotels
The U.S. hotel industry in 2011 marked gains in all three key metrics—occupancy, average daily rate, and revenue per available room. ...
Adrian Segar on the Power of Participation
Adrian Segar, author of Conferences That Work, Creating Events That People Love has a new book coming out in 2010 about how to bring more participation into meeting sessions....
Commentary: 5 Stories that Defined 2011
Here are five stories from 2011, any or all of which could reshape the industry for years to come....
San Jose Officials Decide to Stay With Team San Jose Model
The innovative Team San Jose approach to convention center management has been given a vote of confidence....
Are You Ready for the Sunshine Act?
A survey of participants at the Fourth Annual Life Sciences Meeting Management Forum reveal the industry's state of readiness for the implementation of the Sunshine Act....
IMMPA Names 2011–2012 President and Officers
The 2011–2012 roster of the International Medical Meeting Professionals Association’s officers and directors is now official. ...
Commentary: Three Fatal Flaws the Airlines Can’t Solve
Last week's news that American Airlines had filed for bankruptcy should be all the wake-up call anyone needs to begin weaning meetings and events from their over-reliance on the airline industry. ...
Meeting Lead Times Are Longer and the Mid-Tier is Stronger: New AmEx Report
American Express Meetings & Events released its inaugural Meetings Forecast report....
Pfizer Eliminates Most Unsolicited Grants Under Med Ed Group Reorganization
Ninety percent of Pfizer’s Medical Education Group’s budget now will be allocated through a request-for-proposal process....
It’s Official: Alliance for CME Has New Name
PCMA and Reed Partner on IBTM Portfolio
The Professional Convention Management Association and U.K.–based Reed Travel Exhibitions have formed a strategic partnership in which PCMA will provide support for Reed’s IBTM exhibition portfolio starting in January 2012....
Diversified Acquires Pri-Med, Brings Back Former Leadership Team
Diversified Business Communications has acquired Pri-Med’s U.S. assets from M/C Holding Corp. and rehired Pri-Med's former management team....
Commentary: 4.74 Degrees of Separation—Good News or Bad?
Last week, Facebook came out with the news that the old six degrees of separation theory is obsolete for participants in the world’s largest social network. ...
MeetingMetrics Gives You Measurement You Can Take to the C-Suite
“Add meeting measurement to your skills and you become imminently more valuable,” says Ira Kerns, managing director, MeetingMetrics....
Green Meetings Standards Set to Publish
The Convention Industry Council has announced that eight of the nine sustainable meeting standards will be published before the end of the month....
Omni Dallas Opens With Star-Studded Ceremony
After two years of construction, the 1,001-room Omni Dallas Hotel officially opened on November 11 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony with the stars of the television show, “Dallas,” Larry Hagman and Linda Gray, doing the honors....
Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott Host Planners at Beautiful San Antonio Hill Country Resort
Less than two years old, the 1,002-room JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country resort brims with warm and beautiful design, including subtle Texas touches and comfortable spaces, for an overall effect of “unpretentious luxury.”...
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