What drives meeting planners craziest was the subject of a “March Madness” contest held recently by the Destination Marketing Association International’s empowerMINT team. The contest garnered more than 3,000...
In 2009, British newspapers had a field day blasting a gift given by U.S. President Barack Obama to U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The gift of 25 DVDs of classic American movies was weak, the papers said, held up against the Prime Minister’s g...
Count yourself lucky to work in an industry brimming with educational and networking activities. Here's a spin through some great events from around the meetings world over the last few months, though we have separate galleries for some of the...
Buskers everywhere, leave your guitar cases and don a TSA uniform if you want to collect the big bucks! Of course, you wouldn't get to keep it, but the $674,841.06 in spare change travelers left behind at security checkpoints last year is nothing...
Financial & Insurance Conference Planners has been approved for Certified Meeting Professional Preferred Provider status from the Convention Industry Council, which administers the CMP designation...
CBI’s Amanda Batstone and Julie Janson, key account director with IHG, presented the first Procurement Partnership Award to Aynn Furie, senior director, global meetings category, and Paige Furr, her global procurement partner at Pfizer.Pharma For...
Hyatt recently surveyed travelers to find our deep, dark, and silly road warrior secrets. Here's what we told them, in infographic form (The survey was conducted as part of the Hyatt Place “There’s a Place for You” campaign). I'm trying to think ...
