When Marriott International began placing envelopes in guest rooms to encourage guests to tip housekeeping staff last year, it prompted discussion of tipping habits in general. The topic is right up the alley of Jacqueline Whitmore, an etiquette ...

To support its Sheraton Selects Wine program, the hotel chain commissioned a survey on global wine and travel trends. At least for the survey respondents, who hailed from the U.S., Germany, China, Chile, and Argentina, almost half would reach for...

John Spence, Springtime speakerDuring the week of April 8, several high-level events will bring association and other meeting professionals to Washington, D.C., for education, networking, and celebration. Four events are being organized by the In...

I'm going to be moderating what I think will be a really cool free webinar this Thursday, March 19, at 2 p.m. ET on how you can use the six ways your attendees behave digitally to design activities that will help you get your key messages across...

Forget the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. Thanks to Destination Marketing Association International’s empowerMINT.com, meeting planners now have a contest of their own: the March Meeting Planner Madness tournament. “Being a meeting profes...

Screen shot of the fastest flights interactive Web site home pageI went to a session on data journalism led by the Boston Globe's Evan Horowitz at an American Society of Business Press Editors bootcamp last fall. It's a whole different way of tel...

Meetings, marketing, and technology maven Jessica L. Levin, MBA, CMP, CAE, has made a living out of networking and she’s written a book to let everyone else in on her secrets. It’s called Perfect Pairings: The Art of Connecting People. In an eas...

It'll only set you back 536,500 points per person to come visit the koalas at the Great Otway National Park.I’ll be the first to admit that, while as travel advocate Christopher Elliott likes to point out, airline loyalty rewards programs aren’t ...

A scene from last year's roundtablesA not very well-kept secret: IMEX hosts an education day just for association executives the day before the global trade show opens at Messe Frankfurt. This year Association Day is Monday, May 18, and the show ...