Marriott Centralizes Group Sales in New Orleans
Marriott International has completely reorganized the meeting and convention sales force for its 13 hotels in New Orleans, moving from individual property sales to a 12-member centralized sales team for all Marriott-branded properties in the city. ...
Registered Traveler Programs Finally Roll Out
After more than a year of promise and preparation, Registered Traveler has finally expanded beyond Orlando International Airport. ...
Shifting Skies
The skies were not friendly to travelers in 2006, and while they won't be much kinder in 2007, there are some positive developments afoot for passengers....
Winds of Change: Four Trends That Will Change the Meetings Industry
Technology, shifting social values, the new consumer, and demographic shifts are the four trends that will shape the meetings industry in the future, ...
New Online Booking Study
Already more than half of all corporate meeting and group travel is booked online, and that’s expected to grow to 60 percent by 2008. ...
Futurewatch: Planner's Predictions for 2007
There's no question that strategic meeting management is no longer just the purview of a handful of Fortune 500 companies with large, centralized meeting departments....
Ethics on the Agenda
Ethics will be on the agenda at the MeetNow! 2007 Joint Educational Conference of the WestField and Connecticut River Valley Chapters of Meeting Professionals International, to be held February. 22-23 at the Omni New Haven Hotel in New Haven, Conn....
U.S. Entry Process Cause for Concern for Meeting Planners
“This industry cares more about security than any,” said Roger Dow, president and CEO, Travel Industry Association of America. ...
Hotels Can Expect More Money for the Same Number of Meetings
According to a recent study conducted by PKF Hospitality Research in conjunction with Convention South magazine, 64 percent of meeting planners are planning the same number of meetings in 2007 as they did last year, but they expect greater attendance at these meetings....
Senate Travel Bill Includes Allowances for Meetings
The U.S. Senate passed a measure last week that bans most lobbyist-paid travel for lawmakers, but provides allowances for travel to meetings and conventions. ...
Passport Rule Takes Effect Today
The rule requiring citizens of the U.S., Mexico, Canada, and Bermuda to present a passport when entering the U.S. by air takes effect today. ...
MPI Convenes in the Big Easy for PEC '07
Globalization was the watchword as Meeting Professionals International got off to a successful start to its 2007 Professional Education Conference in New Orleans....
Sain Takes Peeper’s Place in Orlando
The Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau has named its new president to replace Bill Peeper, who retired after 22 years at the post. ...
Let the Bidding Begin
The Washington, D.C,. Convention Center Authority is holding a silent auction for a meeting package worth approximately $500,000, Reba Pittman Walker, chief executive officer and general manager at the WCCA, announced at the Professional Convention Management Association’s annual meeting in Toronto on January 8....
Alliance for CME Conference: Plenary Session
The plenary session that officially kicked off this year's Alliance for CME conference offered provocative strategic imperatives for collaborating and balancing stakeholder interests--including some that usually are relegated to the hallway discussions....
Alliance for CME Conference Highlights, Day 1
At the Hospitals and Health Systems Provider Section Meeting, held Wednesday at the Alliance for CME conference in Phoenix, Accreditation Council for CME chief executive Murray Kopelow, MD, and a panel of CME providers fielded questions about the new ACCME accreditation criteria that were announced last fall. ...
Denver to Host '08 DNC
Denver beat out New York to win the bid for the Democratic National Convention, August 25-29, 2008. ...
PhRMA Code Frustrations
Frustration with the more nebulous requirements of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America's Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals was one of the major discussion points during a session, called Medical Meetings Diagnosed, at the Professional Convention Management Association’s annual meeting in Toronto last week (January 7 to 10)...
Senate Spotlights CME
The U.S. Senate Committee on Finance has extended its probe of pharmaceutical industry educational grants by sending a letter of inquiry to the Accreditation Council for CME....
Docs Earn More CME Credits
In good news for continuing medical education providers, respondents to Medical Meetings' 2006 Physicians’ Preferences in CME Study earned an average of 57 credits during the 12 months preceding the survey, compared to 51 last year....
MPI Reacts to Outburst of Violence in New Orleans
New Orleans is suffering through an outburst of deadly violence as the city gets set to host next week’s Meeting Professionals International Professional Education Conference....
The Special Event 2007: An Industry Comes Into Its Own
If there was a common theme at The Special Event 2007, held last week in Los Angeles, it was that this industry, which started out as a cottage industry (or a "garage industry," as insiders like to describe it) has finally evolved into a profession....
Pennsylvania Gets Into Gaming
Within the next two years, Pennsylvania expects to see the opening of five casinos, including two waterfront casinos in Philadelphia, less than 60 miles from the East Coast’s premiere gambling destination of Atlantic City, N.J....
Air France to Open Expedited Security Lane at JFK
Following in the footsteps of British Airways, Air France has reached an agreement with Verified Identity Pass to sponsor a Registered Traveler program at JFK International Airport’s Terminal 1, which is expected to start screening passengers as early as next month....
An Exclusive Tool and Zero Waste--News from PCMA in Toronto
At the Professional Convention Management Association’s annual meeting this week in Toronto, a new online tool to measure meeting performance was introduced, with PCMA members getting exclusive access through September 2007....
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