The George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston recently installed a CoinVault ATM—a machine that issues bitcoin, the virtual currency that has garnered an equal mix of cheers, criticism, and confusion since...
The Boston Convention & Exhibition Center is installing a full-building, real-time location services system to provide turn-by-turn navigation inside the BCEC, helping visitors find meeting rooms, exhibit halls...
The Sheraton Hotel Kansas City and The Westin Kansas City at Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo., boosted its bandwidth from 200MB to 1G, switched to fiber delivery, and is upgrading hardware to support the new speeds...
Last October, the Federal Communications Commission fined Marriott International $600,000 for intentionally jamming some of its customers’ Wi-Fi connections in the meeting space at Gaylord Opryland Hotel & Conven...
The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua, on Maui, played host to well over 60 insurance and financial services company meeting planners, guests, Ritz-Carlton representatives, and other meeting vendor partners during The Ritz...
Two groups of insurance and financial services company planners, along with representatives from properties in the Preferred Hotels & Resorts portfolio, enjoyed a taste of Hawaiian beauty and luxury before and...
The BestCities Global Alliance continues its expansion into emerging markets with the announcement that Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, and its bureau, the Greater Bogotá Convention Bureau, is its first...
As the new year begins, the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence is celebrating the industry’s recovery at the same time it commits to addressing an issue that has long been in the shadows—child sex trafficking. S...
Here’s a look back at some of the revealing, refreshing, and just plain interesting items brought to you in 2014 in MeetingsNet's "On the Fly" report, our monthly selection of intel and ideas on...
“Adorable Hotel Brand Kimpton Sells Out,” proclaimed a Frommer’s blog. “Kimpton’s Travel Groupies Don’t Want to Stay at Holiday Inn,” read the headline at...
