Financial & Insurance Conference Planners has been approved for Certified Meeting Professional Preferred Provider status from the Convention Industry Council, which administers the CMP designation...
When you’re a huge conference center that’s hosted thousands of training meetings, you pick up a few tips and tricks. The National Conference Center in Leesburg, Va., which offers 917 guest rooms and more...
It’s not rocket science: More than half of meeting attendees probably will never ask a question in the traditional pass-the-microphone setting because they want to remain anonymous. Research just released by...
Luxury hotel operator Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is taking over management of San Diego’s Grand Del Mar resort, a Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star hotel for the fourth consecutive year, rebranding it as the Fairmont Gran...
For the third consecutive year, Singapore Changi Airport tops the list of the World’s Best Airports, released this month by air travel rating company Skytrax. Launched in 1999, the awards are...
Atop Ink48, a Kimpton hotel in Hell’s Kitchen, New York, is a two-floor luxury penthouse suite recently renovated to serve as a corporate event space. Gone are the curtains, carpets, and outdoor jacuzzi; now you’ll f...
When Marriott International began placing envelopes in guest rooms to encourage guests to tip housekeeping staff last year, it prompted discussion of tipping habits in general. The topic is right up the alley of Jacq...
If there’s one thing legislators like, it’s data.
Now the Meetings Mean Business coalition and the U.S. Travel Association have a new batch of data to bring to Capitol Hill on behalf of government meetings, which ...
EVENTup, an online database of more than 10,000 event venues in the U.S., has launched EVENTup Curated Experiences, a collection of packaged corporate events at venues in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York City...
1960s-inspired server uniforms designed by "Mad Men" costumer Janie Bryant for The Watergate HotelWith “Mad Men” costume designer Janie Bryant on hand, The Watergate Hotel held a topping off ceremony March 19. Bryant...
