Sep 08, 2014

Just when you thought you’d learned all about what revenue managers are thinking when your RFPs land on their desks, along comes an article titled "Sea Change" in the September issue of Hotels magazine that turns the topic on its...

Dynamic Pricing: New Negotiation Tactic

Sep 07, 2014

Ever on the cutting edge of the planner/hotelier relationship, MGM Resorts’ Michael Dominguez is working with meeting clients on a contract idea that could solve a big problem for each side. It helps hotels maximize revenue on available...

Challenge to Big Chain CEOs: Be First With Free Wi-Fi

Aug 29, 2014

The time has come for all hotels worldwide to offer complimentary basic Internet to all guests...

Gallery: Scenes from ASAE 2014

Aug 29, 2014

Close to 6,000 association professionals and industry partners attended the 2014 ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition, August 9-12, in Nashville. ASAE had the highest number of association executives—3,159—since the 2007 ASAE Annual...

Dubai Makes it Easy for Associations to Expand Their Global Footprint

Aug 29, 2014

A new law enables associations to incorporate in Dubai

IMEX America: The Hub of Co-located Education and Networking

Aug 29, 2014

New this year: Education for Millennials, Deep-Dive Business Classes

The Big List of What Matters to a Revenue Manager

Aug 28, 2014

If you can help a hotel’s RevPAR with date flexibility or future meetings, you’ve got the revenue manager’s attention.

Big Data and Global Association Meetings

Aug 21, 2014

A data tool introduced by ICCA for its supplier members has implications for association meeting pros, too

Conference Crashers (aka Lobby Rats) Redux

Aug 20, 2014

After mulling on this one for a while, reading the New York Times article on "conference crashers," and just now hearing the good folks on the Event Alley Show talking about it, I think I finally am coming down on the anti-lobby rat side (though I...