Multinational SMMPs: Think Globally, Act Locally
Instituting a strategic meeting management program in the U.S. is one thing; expanding it globally is quite another. ...
StarCite Helps Planners Assess Environmental Footprint
StarCite is helping planners to automate and streamline going green. The Philadelphia-based provider of meeting-management solutions has partnered with Meeting Strategies Worldwide Inc., a Portland, Ore.–based conference management, consulting, and training company, to help foster green meetings....
StarCite Buys European Distributor
In a move to expand its European presence, Philadelphia-based StarCite has acquired Travent Limited, EMEA, a U.K.-based distributor of its MeetingView meeting-management technology....
Border-Crossing Blues
Don't leave home without it. No, not your American Express Card. It's your passport, which now must be shown for U.S. citizens to enter (and get back from) Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean by air, under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. ...
Senate CME Report Sparks Controversy
CME professionals' reactions to the Senate Finance Committee report on medical education run the gamut, from those who agree that pharmaceutical company funding results in biased programming to those who think the committee is wasting its time and should focus on other issues, such as Medicare fraud. ...
Uncle Sam Puts the Squeeze on ACCME
Two days after it issued its April 25 report on CME, the United States Senate Committee on Finance followed up with a letter to the Accreditation Council for CME, highlighting its concerns that the ACCME’s oversight is insufficient to guarantee that programs are independent of drug company influence. ...
How Sarbanes-Oxley Has Changed Meetings
Five years after it became law, the Sarbanes-Oxley bill has sparked a number of shifts in the way meetings are managed and procured, said Joshua Grimes, Esq., Grimes Law Offices, Philadelphia, speaking at the Third Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, held March 26 and 27 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. ...
Attendees' Pet Peeves About Exhibits
The typical exhibit hall is overwhelming and an inefficient learning environment. ...
ACTE, American Purchasing Society Form Strategic Partnership
Bridging the gap between corporate meeting professionals and procurement executives just got a little easier now that the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, Alexandria, Va., and the American Purchasing Society, Aurora, Ill., have formed a strategic partnership...
Confessions from Exhibitions Anonymous
Trade show organizers have a problem, said Mickey McManus, president and CEO of MAYA Design, to the more 180 people who gathered at the Washington, D.C., Convention Center last week for the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum one-day program. ...
Green Learning Lab at Meeting Professionals International PEC-Europe
Using its recent Professional Education Conference–Europe as it resource laboratory, Meeting Professionals International has released a white paper that, it says, reaffirms the impact effective “learning” meetings have on ROI for both the meeting planner and the attendee....
Incentive Research Foundation Hosts Successful First Golf Event
The Incentive Research Foundation hosted its first event, the IRF Incentive Invitational, this past weekend at the Ritz-Carlton Golf & Spa Resort, Rose Hall, in Montego Bay, Jamaica. ...
Las Vegas Convention Center Renovations Approved
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s board of directors approved the budget, timeline, and plans for the renovation of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Most of the work will be completed in 2010, as initially planned, although some meeting room renovations will be completed in 2011 to accommodate trade show clients. ...
The EPA’s Meetings Go Green
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has joined the ranks of organizations that are rethinking the impact of their meetings on the environment. ...
Study Finds Public Confused Over Passport Rules
Don’t be too sure your attendees have a clue when it comes to the new passport requirements under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. The Travel Industry Association of America just released the results of a survey of 1,980 American adults, and more than half were confused. ...
MPI Changes Trade Show Format Again
Meeting Professionals International is tinkering with its trade show format and will extend its MeetingPlace hours at the World Education Congress in Montréal this summer over two days instead of one....
Hyatt Targets Luxury Travelers with Andaz Launch
Business and leisure travelers looking for an alternative high-end hotel brand will soon have another option. Chicago-based Global Hyatt Corp. has announced the launch of its new Andaz brand of upscale urban hotels, opening first in London and New York, and eventually in other domestic and international destinations, including Beijing and Moscow...
Marco Island Marriott: A Bit of Bali in Southwest Florida
Walk out from the glass-walled lobby, a towering A-frame, and stand amid palm trees. Wander down to soft white sand and watch the sun melt into the wide open sea. You could be in Bali. Or you could be at the Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort & Spa....
More Hotel Supply on the Horizon?
The supply of new hotel rooms in the U.S. could accelerate in the next couple of years if, as economic trends indicate, construction and real estate prices decline, according to a new report by PKF Hospitality Research, Atlanta...
Deal Is Done in Boston: Hotel/Union Sign New Contract
Boston hoteliers and Unite Here Local 26, the union that represents hotel employees in Boston, ended their five-month stalemate late last week by agreeing to a new six-year deal. ...
IACC Annual Meeting High Notes
At the annual meeting of the International Association of Conference Centers, April 19-22 at International Association of Conference Centers, New Brunswick, N.J., close to 500 conference center operators heard that while business was very, very good, the demand for conference centers from the meetings segment was flattening; attrition clauses in conference center contracts could be fairer to both sides; and Ron Naples, president, Maple Mountain Hospitality, won the annual Mel Hosansky Award for Distinguished Service....
CME in the Senate Hot Seat
The U.S. Senate Committee on Finance dropped a bombshell on the continuing medical education community last week when it released a report saying that some purportedly independent educational programs are, in reality, veiled advertising vehicles for the pharmaceutical industry. ...
Airport Security Fast Lane for Little Rock
Verified Identity Pass is about to add Little Rock National Airport to its growing list of Register Traveler customers...
Green Build Best Practices
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IMEX Green Winners
Last week, IMEX, the incentive and meeting exhibition, drew 3,500 hosted buyers to Frankfurt, Germany. ...
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