MPI and GBTA look toward 2013 and the potential implications of the fiscal cliff on meetings and travel.

You put a lot of time and effort into finding the right property at the right rate for your meetings' goals and objectives. Could all your hard work be undermined by some bad reviews on TripAdvisor or any of the other myriad hotel review ...

Today's guest post comes to us from Carsten Kraus, chief executive of FACT-Finder Travel, who tackled the topic of semantic travel search at The World Travel Market 2012. While it may have a much more dramatic impact on leisure travel, think a...

How a personality-type tool called the PACE Color Palette can help you better understand how your colleagues (and bosses) think and perceive the world. Four CME professionals explored the PACE system at a recent ACEHP Leadership Institute, and are...

An almost unrecognizable Louis CK nails the unctuous hotel clerk in this sendup of hotel fees on Saturday Night Live. And here I thought hotel fees were so absurd as to be almost impossible to ridicule...bring on the taxidermied bobcat!

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After hours with the principal lecturer for enterprise, International Centre for Research in Events, Tourism, and Hospitality, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, United Kingdom; and frequent meeting industry writer and lecturer

The recent IMEX America in Las Vegas sent a message to the entire meetings industry that live trade shows are here to stay.

Liberty Mutual's Mary Keough-Anderson turned her traditional meeting planning team members into a strategic partners with meeting owners—and a model for the future of event management.