The Meetings Mean Business Coalition’s latest campaign to highlight the meetings industry holds up the U.S. presidential election as a model for the importance of people getting together face to face...
Etouches, provider of cloud-based event management software, today announced its acquisition of Zentila, which provides mainly corporate and third-party meeting planners with an e-RFP engine for site selection...
An article by Nancy Zavada about the common misconception that donating leftover event food is illegal garnered lots of comments at MeetingsNet. Many planners said they’ve gotten pushback from hotels when...
Anyone who attended the Women in Travel (WINiT) Summit in Orlando last July got some big-picture thinking about women’s influence in the world, some practical career takeaways, and the chance to meet nearly 400...
When money changes hands, that’s selling, not sharing. This is the simple idea behind many observers’ objection to the term “sharing economy” when used to refer to companies like Uber and...
Each week, MeetingsNet invites readers to meet a member of WomenInTravel. WINiT is a nonprofit, volunteer-led organization founded in 2014 to support and empower women in the meeting, event, travel, and exhibition in...
The “Mentor-in-Chief” (i.e., President Barack Obama) bid farewell to the White House’s 2016 interns recently. “Because change is hard,” he told them, “it’s going to be tempting at some point, when… things aren’t goin...
A new grant from The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation will provide personalized progressive career preparation and leadership development strategies to students enrolled in the School of Hospitality...
