New Tool Analyzes Trade Show Investments
Exhibit Surveys Inc. has partnered with Constellation Communication Corp. to offer an online planning tool that walks exhibitors through setting objectives for their trade-show participation...
Youth Marketing: You Need to Know the Kids of Today
One fundamental of marketing is that you must know your audience. So if you are planning a youth event, you need to understand the kids...
Associations See Revenue Declines on the Near Horizon
Was attendance for your 2010 meeting up or down...
Des Moines Makes Its Play for More, Bigger Meetings
County officials in Des Moines have voted unanimously to renovate and expand Veterans Memorial Auditorium...
Shimasaki Joins DMAI
Christine Shimasaki, CMP, CDME, has been hired by Destination Marketing Association International as managing director of EmpowerMINT.com, a new version of the association’s online resource portal that includes a database of post-event reports, among other features. Shimasaki joins from the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, which she left in May after a downsizing...
RCMA Gives $100,000 to Fight Hunger
For the fifth consecutive year, the Religious Conference Management Association has donated $100,000 to the United Nations’ World Food Programme to fight hunger among children...
Secure Flight Takes Off
The Transportation Security Administration has finally begun implementing Secure Flight, after a controversial five-year gestation...
Religious Conference Manager Asks: How are your meetings being affected by the recession?
Attendance had been trending down before the financial crunch hit, so we knew we had to do something different. We conducted surveys and listening sessions and found that folks wanted three things...
Senate Committee Passes Travel Promotion Act
The Senate Commerce Committee last week approved the Travel Promotion Act, a five-year plan to attract more international visitors to the United States...
The Gurus of Green Empower Planners, Cities
Aiming for a more recognizable brand and a sharper focus for their company, Amy Spatrisano and Nancy Wilson, co-founders of Meeting Strategies Worldwide, have renamed the company MeetGreen...
Disney Buys Land at National Harbor, Md.
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts’ first and only stand-alone resort hotel, Ko' Olina, is under construction on the Hawaiian island of Oahu—but a second may not be far behind...
IACC Members Sign Code, Pledge Sustainable Business Practices
The International Association of Conference Centers has launched a Code of Sustainability to encourage its member properties to implement and follow environmentally sound practices...
Travel Advisories to Mexico Lifted, MPI Confirms Meeting
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted its advisory against non-essential travel to Mexico on May 15...
The First Goal of International Meetings: Clear Communication
“Meetings and events are first and foremost about communication. When communication breaks down, delegates are dissatisfied and events fail to achieve their goals...
Hotel a Go in Dallas
A heated debate over whether or not the city of Dallas should fund construction of a convention center headquarters hotel ended Saturday when residents voted to move forward with the publicly funded hotel...
Swine Flu Alters Meeting Policy, Meetings in Mexico and Beyond
As the new strain of swine flu put the health authorities around the world on alert over the past two weeks, many corporations around the country reacted quickly to the threat by canceling meetings and putting restrictions on travel to Mexico...
Murphy Moves to Choice Hotels
Michael Murphy has joined Choice Hotels International Inc. as senior vice president of global sales...
Swine Flu Puts Meeting Planners on Alert
As if the meetings and travel industries haven’t faced enough challenges over the last year, now there’s another–an increasingly serious swine flu outbreak...
U.S. Travel Launches National “Rally Day” to Raise Industry Awareness
On May 12, the U.S. Travel Association will stage the first-ever U.S. Travel Rally Day to promote travel and meetings in communities across the country...
U.S. Travel’s Freeman Hopeful About Treasury Guidelines
If you’re hearing and reading less about the negative perception of meetings and incentive travel, it’s no accident...
Starwood Accuses Hilton of Corporate Espionage
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. has filed a lawsuit accusing Hilton Hotels Corp. of “aiding and abetting” two Hilton executives...
Javits to Be Expanded and Renovated
The long and winding road to expand the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City is nearing an end...
Hawaii Looks to Obama for Help
Hard hit by an epidemic of meeting cancellations, Hawaii is turning to favorite son President Barack Obama for some needed relief...
New Contest to Find Faces of the Meetings and Travel Industry
A drive is under way to find a spokesperson for the Meetings Mean Business campaign, and it could be you...
UNITE HERE Splinters, Some Hotel Workers Align With New Union
About 150,000 members of the hotel workers’ union UNITE HERE split off to form a new union, Workers United...
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