Travel Industry Organizations to Merge
Three travel industry organizations, including the Travel Industry Association, are merging into a single, not yet named, new entity...
JetBlue Implements New Phase of Meetings Product
While many airlines have discontinued or reduced their meetings products, JetBlue is expanding its program, CompanyBlue Meetings, launched earlier this year...
Hilton to Build Headquarters Hotel at Broward Convention Center
The Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is getting closer to securing a headquarters hotel, something the convention center has been missing since 1989. On November 1, a panel of 10, including eight county commissioners, selected Hilton Hotels Corp. over Marriott International Inc. to build...
The Four S’s and ESG
You’ve heard of the three R’s: reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic. Well, the meetings industry has some fundamentals, too, and you can learn about them at a virtual classroom for the industry’s accepted practices exchange initiative, or APEX...
Attendance, Revenues Spike, Says CEIR Index
All key exhibition industry metrics rose in the second quarter, including the biggest gainers, revenue and attendance, according to the Center for Exhibition Industry Research’s CEIR Index...
White Paper on Global Consolidation by Advito
MPI-CAC to Host Women’s Leadership Conference
Meeting Professionals International Chicago Area Chapter is holding a daylong conference dedicated to addressing issues facing female leaders. The 2007 MPI-CAC Women's Leadership Conference—geared toward full- and part-time meeting planners...
Update: K.C. Convention Kaput
The country’s largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy group has pulled its 2009 annual convention out of Kansas City...
Green Power
Kim Boriin, CMP, is greening his hotel contracts. The senior events marketing specialist at Guardian Investor Services LLC, New York, now has a clause “saying that we are concerned with sustainable business practices and want to know that you are, too.”...
Winning Meeting Technology Announced
SpotMe 2, a handheld multifunction meeting gadget, has grabbed first place in the WorldWide Technology Watch competition, an annual contest run by EIBTM, the international meeting and incentive exhibition...
K.C. May Lose Conventions Over Minutemen Controversy
This past summer, Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser appointed Frances Semler to the Kansas City Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners. But to associations like the National Council of La Raza and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the story is more complicated...
Trade Show News on TV
BD Metrics wants to help trade show organizers catch up with the “YouTube effect” by offering TradeshowTV, a product that allows them to set up their own CNN-type news desk to broadcast show news from their organization’s Web site...
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. ...
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....
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....
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. ...
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. ...
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