While the Americas Meetings and Events Exhibition, which debuts June 21-23, 2011, at the Baltimore Convention Center, announced last spring that it will co-locate with the Professional Convention Management Association’s 2011 Education Conference...
EIBTM’s annual meetings technology innovation competition has announced its winner: Montréal-based Sherpa Solutions’ ActivTouch smartphone application edged out 51 other meeting technologies for the first-place spot in the 2010 WorldWide...
The Professional Convention Management Association will co-locate its International Summit at IMEX America—a hosted buyer event for the meetings industry that will launch in October 2011 in Las Vegas. This is the third co-location that PCMA has...
The U.S. Office of Travel and Tourism is seeking industry leaders to fill three seats on its Travel and Tourism Advisory Board. The deadline to apply is Friday, October 8. The board was established to advise the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on...
A new online request for proposal service from the AMC Institute is aiming to make it easier for associations to hire association management companies for specialized support services, such as meeting planning and Web site development. The...
Imagine if an event company or facility kept raising prices and cutting service, created huge logistical roadblocks for customers, proved incapable of turning a profit, then pushed back on regulators’ attempts to smarten up their practices...
The $1.4 billion acquisition of AirTran Airways by Southwest Airlines, announced on September 27, is likely to mean a bump in fares for meeting travelers. What’s uncertain is if the merged carrier will have a discount program for meetings...
Those who organized RCMA more than 30 years ago were driven by a desire to develop an association that focused exclusively on religious meeting planners. Those who lead RCMA today are still faithful to this single objective...
