Learn from the experts how to implement environmentally conscious meetings policies that reduce unnecessary waste without breaking the budget...

If you didn’t make it to every session you wanted to at the Professional Convention Management Association annual meeting in January—or you didn’t make it to the meeting at all—the education now has a home online. PCMA has a new Web portal called...

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...

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...

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.” Management Options Inc., the Washington, D.C...

A U.K.-based incentive company is taking a stand by refusing to do business with a company it believes contributes to global warming...

Move over, green meetings. There's a new kid in town: the carbon-neutral event. If you are congregating a number of people for a conference or convention, you are, by definition, increasing greenhouse gases as people fly and drive to your event...

Average cost of domestic airfare in 2006, an increase of 7 percent over 2005 $231 ...

My sister has lived in Italy for more than half her life now. She’s married to a native Italian and has two kids who have grown up in Rome. Yet she still occasionally has what she calls “cultural moments,” which she describes on her Cross-Cultural...

SUSAN TJADEN Editor Cook Communications Ministries Colorado Springs, Colo...