In a hastily called, but packed session at Meeting Professionals International’s MeetDifferent conference, being held in Atlanta this week, Christine Duffy, president and CEO of Maritz Travel, and Jonathan Howe, JD, president, senior partner, Howe...
The Meetings Community, the three-year-old, volunteer-driven meetings-industry listserv and Web site, plans to incorporate as a non-profit association before the end of the year...
How to survive the current economic crisis was a running theme of the opening general session at Meeting Professionals International¹s MeetDifferent conference, which kicked off on Sunday. MPI Chairman Larry Luteran, Hilton Hotels Corp.¹s senior...
In the months leading up to RCMA 2009, attendees worried about January weather in the host city, Grand Rapids, Michigan. But a funny thing happened on the way to the conference: Grand Rapids had better weather than most of the United States durin...
New oversight regulations for financial institutions that receive money from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief Program has the meetings industry speaking out to defend the value of conferences and events. In addition to new...
To mark Hawaii’s 50th anniversary of statehood, the Hawai‘i Convention Center is offering meeting planners quite a deal. Groups that book meetings at the Hawai‘i Convention Center by December 31, 2009, for 2011, 2012, 2016, or 2017 get 50 percent...
Two hotel industry veterans, Dave Scypinski and Fred Shea, have recently joined meeting planning company ConferenceDirect as senior vice presidents...
When you think of “green” and the environment, Atlantic City, N.J., is probably not the first place that comes to mind. So said Gary Musich, vice president, development, for the Atlantic City Convention and Visitors Authority, speaking at the...
