FutureWatch, the 4-year-old flagship survey of Meeting Professionals International, released its 2006 results last week, offering a wide-angle snapshot of the trends that are influencing meetings and meeting planners...

In response to the growth in multicultural meetings and conventions, the Network of Latino Meeting Professionals was formed in January by a group of volunteers in the Washington, D.C., area. The organization is made up of meeting planners and...

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While talk of a certification program developed specifically for medical meeting planners has been circulating for years, the Professional Meeting Planners Network, Durham, N.C., decided in October to do more than talk. It is in the beginning...

In Meeting Professionals International's new salary survey, based on 1,139 MPI members' responses gathered last spring, gender pay differences stood out most dramatically. The average base salaries for men and women in the United States (for the...

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Glenn Reighart has had three distinctly different careers: retail management, sign language interpreting, and finally, meeting planning. For Reighart, Meeting Professionals International's 2005 International Planner of the Year, the third career...

While talk of a certification program developed specifically for medical meeting planners has been circulating for years, the Professional Meeting Planners Network, Durham, N.C., decided in October to do more than talk. It is in the beginning...