Alison Hall

It seems that convention and visitors bureaus get a bad rap from corporate meeting managers. The gripes: CVBs are too association-focused, they take care of only citywides, they don't value corporate business, they...

How do you create cohesiveness among your meeting planners when they sit in offices from Phoenix to Denver to Hartford...

Let the numbers do the talking: The member companies of Financial & Insurance Conference Planners alone spend $600 million on meetings. And a typical FICP member company's largest meeting brings $500,000 of pure...

From membership that is up 9 percent to big budget numbers reported in FICP's first Economic Impact Survey the vitality of the financial and insurance meetings industry was evident at the FICP Annual Conference, held...

"Hotels are taking a hard look at all meetings that come across the table, and they are rejecting meetings that don't fit their business model.” That's how Jennifer Brown, CMP, partner, Meetings Sites Resource, set...

“Apprentice” TV show alum and up-and-coming speaker Wes Moss engaged the audience at the Financial & Insurance Conference Planners annual meeting in November with his easygoing style and blend of personal...

First, maybe you weren't aware that the Galapagos Islands were part of Ecuador. Here are some other things you might not know: Ecuador's capital of Quito was the first to be named a UNESCO World Heritage City, its...

For a company that introduced its brand to the U.S. market only in 2001, ING has become a big name in financial services. Originating in The Netherlands, ING operates in 50 countries and counts 14 million U.S...