I recently read an article describing meeting planners who had no qualms about claiming to have earned a CMP (Certified Meeting Professional) designation when in fact they had not, or who had earned it a long time ago and never gotten recertified...
The 190-room Holiday Inn Select Atlanta Airport South is aiming to redefine the airport hotel with features designed for medium-sized meetings. Rooms are equipped with data ports and high-speed Internet access, plus two phone lines with caller ID...
iConvention.com an Inexpensive Option "Our idea is to get association trade shows online so they can compete with all the vertical communities popping up that are trying to get rid of or replace associations," says Walter Mathews, director of...
Answering the Call, CIC Reinvents Itself "Part of the problem with the Convention Industry Council is that it never had much of an image or communicated particularly well with its various audiences--or the industry as a whole, " says Garis F...
A few months ago at the IAEM Annual Meeting in Miami Beach, I led an educational session about developing e-business strategies in the trade show industry. I've tried to summarize a few of the key notions from that session here...
Key Findings * Top uses of the Internet: meeting destination and facility research, meeting registration, sale of association services and products, and e-mail marketing...
Once again London is remaking itself. The self-deemed Millennium City is undergoing a huge development boom, fueled in part by millennium celebration projects such as the Millennium Dome and the Millennium Wheel, but certainly much broader than...
Part One: U.K. New Developments A recent press trip sponsored by the British Tourist Authority brought to life some of the exciting new U.K. developments of interest to meeting and incentive travel organizers. This is part one of a two-piece...
Third largest of the islands, Oahu is home to Honolulu and 75 percent of the state's population. The island's geographic center has dramatic highlands of sheer green cliffs sculpted by wind and erosion. A lei of more than 50 beaches encircles the...
