Cvent, a McLean, Va.–based event technology provider, has released a major upgrade to its online request for proposal tool, the Cvent Supplier Network. Major changes include the option for meeting planners to send hotels a stripped-down request f...
One of the lasting lessons of the recent economic crash is that no meeting should expect to survive if it can’t demonstrate its value. The multimillion-dollar question is whether we know how to track and report that value in a way that makes sense...
Cisco Systems, the San Jose, Calif.–based technology giant, has announced plans to market its suite of collaborative communications tools to the events industry...
Federal authorities have brought charges against four individuals in the slaying of meeting planner Ben Novack—including his wife. Novack, the owner of Convention Concepts Unlimited, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was found dead in his hotel room in Rye...
The Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau has launched a new Web-based service for convention groups, the Five-Minute Meeting Planner. This tool offers meeting planners the opportunity to quickly enter basic event details and compare the area...
The Rev. William O. Gafkjen was elected June 5 to a six-year term as bishop of the Indiana-Kentucky Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America at the synod assembly in Covington, Ky.
Gafkjen is a meeting-planner member of the Religious ...
The International Association of Exhibitions and Events brings back its Mid-Year Meeting brand this year, July 12-15 in Boston, co-locating with National Trade Productions’ TS2 conference for exhibit and event professionals...
For meeting properties on the Gulf Coast, this summer season is lining up to be more about cleanup workers than conference attendees or family vacationers.
As the first Meeting Professionals International chapter to be managed by a new association-management division at MPI’s headquarters office in Dallas, the New England Chapter welcomed MPI President and CEO Bruce MacMillan with open arms to its...
Meeting planners and suppliers can finally dig into the industry’s long-awaited sustainable meeting standards. While the new APEX green standards won’t officially launch until September or later, the first training program on how to use them will...
