Dermatology Nurses Look Back, Spring Forward
The Dermatology Nurses’ Association, which enjoyed near-record attendance at its 25th annual convention, used the anniversary as a springboard to market the meeting....
Timeline for Las Vegas Center Renovations in Question
Officials at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority are grappling with the timeline for the multi-million dollar renovation of the city’s convention center. ...
Listserv Plans to Build a Mansion
The Meetings Community, an industry educational listserv commonly known as MeCo, has announced that it will soon have a home in Second Life, a booming online world where participants move around and chat as avatars. ...
Match Your Employees With the Right Reward
Maritz Inc., Fenton, Mo., has a new study out that analyzes employees based on the way they like to be recognized. After talking to 1,003 adults employed full time, researches arrived at six categories—Freedom Yearners, Nesters, Award Seekers, Bottom Liners, Praise Cravers, and Upward Movers—to define employees with specific traits in the hopes of helping companies better motivate their winners. ...
Disney to Add Ocean Liners
Disney Cruise Line plans to add two new ocean liners to its fleet. The ships, which are scheduled to launch in 2011 and 2012, will more than double the line’s passenger capacity and help Disney meet demand for its cruise business, which hosts a range of corporate meetings and incentive groups....
Palm Beach CVB Restructures After Scandal
Following a scandal in which the former controller of the Palm Beach (Fla.) Convention and Visitors Bureau embezzled about $1.5 million from the organization’s coffers, the Palm Beach County Board of Commissioners will allow the CVB to continue to oversee tourism marketing but has decided to take over oversight of the convention center. ...
Online Excel Training for Meeting Pros
Meeting professionals can hone their Excel skills at an upcoming webinar, organized by the Financial and Insurance Conference Planners association and led by James Spellos, CMP, president, Meetings U. ...
Passport Requirements for Children Eased
The Department of Homeland Security plans to relax the passport requirements for children who are citizens of the U.S. and Canada traveling into the United States via land and sea....
Condo Hotels on the Rise
The hottest trend in new hotel development these days is condo hotels. ...
Panel Addresses Industry Ethical Issues
A panel of experts gathered at MeetNow! 2007 in New Haven, Conn., to delve into the sticky ethical issues that plague the meeting and hospitality industry. ...
The Carbon-Neutral Event
Move over, “green meeting.” Enter the “carbon-neutral event.” When you bring groups together for a meeting, you are by nature increasing greenhouse gases as people fly and drive to your event. ...
New Study Reveals Pharma Event Marketing Trends
Event marketing -- that is, marketing that takes place at meetings and events -- makes up 24 percent of the average healthcare company’s marketing budget, which is slightly less than the 26 percent that the average corporation allots for it, according to EventView 2006: Healthcare/Pharmaceutical Report, a new survey of event marketing trends in the healthcare industry by George P. Johnson Co. ...
IMEX Expects a Big Turnout in Frankfurt
Europe’s two major international meeting and incentive travel exhibitions—IMEX, a spring show in Frankfurt, and EIBTM, a late fall show in Barcelona—continue to woo attendees with generous hosted-buyer programs and a growing slate of seminars and focused educational and networking opportunities....
Housecleaning at MPI Headquarters
Heads rolled at the headquarters of Meeting Professionals International last week. ...
Floor Collapse Means Quick Meeting Change in Pittsburgh
The collapse of some concrete flooring in Pittsburgh’s David L. Lawrence Convention Center February 5 forced the facility to close temporarily and had several groups scrambling to find different venues or dates for their meetings....
Wikipedia Founder to Headline DigitalNow Conference
DigitalNow, a professional development program for association executives, produced by Fusion Productions and the Disney Institute, will feature Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikipedia project, as one of four general session speakers when it takes place April 11 to 14 at Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Fla....
Vegas is Doc City
Las Vegas wasn’t a top destination for healthcare meetings 10 years ago, but now it reigns as the most popular destination for healthcare meetings, according to the Healthcare Convention and Exhibitors Association’s 2007 Industry Research Report. ...
PCMA Survey: International Attendance at Conventions is Stable, But Low
Despite the fact that international travel to the U.S. is down 17 percent since 2001 overall, international attendance at association meetings and conventions has not declined, according to a new study commissioned by the Professional Convention Management Association. ...
Accreditation Tops the Bill at Alliance Conference
The Accreditation Council for CME’s new accreditation criteria were top of mind for many of the 1,820 attendees at the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education 2007 Annual Conference, held in January in Phoenix. ...
Gaylord Opryland Announces Expansion
Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, already one of the larger meeting properties in the U.S., will get 400,000 square feet of new meeting and convention space and an adjacent new 400-room all-suite hotel, according to a proposal released Feb. 12 by Gaylord Entertainment Co. ...
Marriott, Loews Trim the Fat
The move to healthier foods is gaining momentum....
Freeman Shares Pandemic Preparedness Document
We’ve heard it again and again: The avian flu outbreak among birds in Asia, Europe, and other parts of the world has a small but potentially disastrous chance of creating a deadly pandemic in humans. ...
A Treasure Returned
Jennie Campbell, CMP, CMM, PMP, chief administrative officer, marketing and business development for investment company Stewart Capital LLC, Metairie, La., lost everything she owned in Hurricane Katrina—including her coveted 1998 Tomorrow’s Leader award from Meeting Professionals International....
U.S. Travel Leaders Introduce Plan to Attract International Visitors
To improve America’s image abroad and increase international travel to the U.S., the Discover America Partnership—a coalition of U.S. hospitality industry leaders—unveiled a three-part plan last week called Blueprint to Discover America....
New Air Taxes Making U.K. Too Expensive?
A decision by the British government to increase a tax on all flights leaving the United Kingdom has airlines and tourism and travel organizations in that country worried about the possible impact it will have on air travel into the U.K....
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