MeetingsNet’s exclusive survey of hotel sales and marketing executives reveals how and why hotels are changing the way they evaluate meetings business and allocate room blocks.
Global Experience Specialists, a full-service provider of live events—well-known as an exhibition general contractor—has acquired two housing companies: onPeak, headquartered in Chicago, and Travel Planners, based in New York City. The combined h...
If you think pirates—those third-party companies that spam your meeting’s exhibitors and attendees with offers to book accommodations cheaper than those in your official hotel room block—have become more aggressive of late, you...
Planners got conservative with bookings during the recession, but the recovery is here, and “everyone is blowing through their room blocks,” said Mike Dominguez, senior vice president, corporate hotel sales, MGM Resorts International...
Hotels are well aware of the rise of Airbnb, the Web site for people renting out rooms and homes and the people looking to book those accommodations. (With the possible exception of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., that is, whose vice president of lea...
Passkey, a hotel booking technology for meetings and events, has rolled out a free housing portal for event organizers that includes a new set of accommodation management tools. PasskeyANYWHERE is a Web-based portal that offers a dedicated housin...
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation posptoned its 2013 GEOINT Symposium from October 2013 to April 14-17 due to the government shutdown.
The Convention Industry Council is turning its gaze on poachers—companies that exist to divert attendees away from the official conference hotel room block and into other area properties. The poachers’ tactics range from annoying to unethical, an...
South by Southwest has grown from a music festival and conference of 700 people in 1987 to a wide-ranging event that drew some 47,000 creative personalities to Austin March 9-16.