BTC Survey Finds Business Travelers Eager For RT
A Business Travel Coalition survey has found that 82 percent of survey participants want to see the airlines they do business with “embrace” the Registered Traveler program...
APEX Recommends Format for Meeting Contracts
Key findings from the APEX contracts report, released earlier this year by the Convention Industry Council’s Accepted Practices Exchange initiative, came to light at a recent webinar. The report recommends industry best practices for handling attrition and other contracting challenges, establishes guidelines on how to format a meetings contract, and creates standard definitions of meeting contract terminology and clauses...
New David Riddell Memorial Scholarship
The Society of Incentive & Travel Executives and Marriott Individual Incentives have announced a new scholarship program in honor of David Riddell, Marriott International’s vice president of incentive and gift card marketing, who died last summer....
Confronted, JetBlue Backs Away from Convention Sponsorship
After public criticism from conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly about its sponsorship of a convention of left-wing bloggers, JetBlue Airways relented—sort of....
Registered Traveler Expanding Quickly
Registered Traveler programs will be in place at 20 to 30 U.S. airports by the end of this year, and 50 airports by the end of 2008, predict executives from FLO Corp., one of five RT companies vying to capture their share of this burgeoning industry....
New alliance between VISA and Arcaneo
Today, strategic meeting management technologies have a low-tech side...
StarCite Launches Orbitz Alliance
By the first quarter of 2008, StarCite expects to have a new travel booking feature: a direct link to Orbitz for Business and Travelport for Business from its attendee-management application....
The Seller’s Market Strikes Again
Unless Osram Sylvania Inc. can get some quick relief from a Florida court, it’s going to have to find a different location for its national sales meeting, booked for October....
Cities Step Up to Become Accredited
Destination Marketing Association International (the former International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus) held its annual convention in Pittsburgh last week, where leadership announced several items of note for meeting planners....
New Accreditation Program for DMCs
The Association of Destination Management Executives, Dayton, Ohio, is rolling out a new accreditation program for destination management companies...
Getting the Royal Treatment
There are plenty of more modern activities for groups to enjoy in Scotland. ...
The Baltimore–Fort Worth Connection
The convention bureaus of Fort Worth, Texas, and Baltimore have formed an innovative partnership in which shared salespeople will sell both destinations, encouraging multiyear contracts using both cities. ...
Reno-Tahoe adds Airport Fast Lanes
Registered Traveler--a program designed to speed enrolled travelers through specially designated airport security lanes--is up and running at Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Nevada...
Growth Slows for Hotels But Rates Remain High
The U.S. hotel industry, which has functioned as a well-oiled machine for the past few years, now is in the midst of a relative slowdown expected to last at least until the end of 2008, according to a report by industry tracker Smith Travel Research. While hotels' financial fundamentals remain strong and rates high--and there is no reason to believe their profit parade will halt--the current dip is evident....
Raising Money for Homeland Security One Visitor at a Time
The Discover America Partnership is touting a new study that shows significant benefits to implementing a $10 visa waiver fee for visitors to the U.S. coming from England, France, Germany, and the 24 other “visa waiver countries.” ...
Another Passport Reprieve?
Following on the heels of a decision by the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to temporarily suspend new passport requirements for U.S. citizens traveling by air within the Western Hemisphere, Congress is pushing to delay further passport requirements governing travel via sea and land....
Experient Opens Las Vegas Office
To better serve its growing clientele in Las Vegas, independent meeting planning company Experient is opening an operations center in the convention boomtown....
Chicago Says, Make My Day
Is new hotel construction finally slowing the seller’s market? And if it is, what will it mean when booking your meetings? Is it possible that hotels aren’t making any more money than they did in 2000? Find answers to those questions and more at two educational forums being held for Chicago-area meeting planners on June 28...
Passport Rules Temporarily Suspended
Faced with a backlog of passport applications and complaints from frustrated travelers who have waited up to three months to get their new passports, the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security have temporarily suspended new passport requirements for U.S. citizens....
Power Resigns from CIC; Search Committee Gets Under Way
Mary Power, CAE, president of the Convention Industry Council, announced last week that she was stepping down from her post and “doing something I haven’t done in seven years: I’m taking a vacation.” ...
Meeting Company Shuns Potential Client Over Green Issues
A U.K.-based incentive company is taking a stand by refusing to do business with a company it believes contributes to global warming....
Hotel Profits Soar in 2006
Hoteliers posted strong gains in 2006 as profits rose 13.3 percent, on average, for the year, according to PKF Consulting’s 2007 Trends in the Hotel Industry survey. ...
Annual Meeting and Association Expo for D.C.
Springtime, a one-day trade show and conference for the association community, will be held June 14 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C., sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives and the Center for Association Leadership....
Chicago Bureau Delivers Small Meetings Tool
The Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau introduced an online tool that helps meeting planners book small meetings in the city....
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....
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