Airfare, hotel rooms, and rental car prices all are rising this year, according to the Business Travel Monitor, which was released yesterday by American Express Business Travel. Domestic airfares are pricier now than they have been since year-end...

EventView 2006, the fifth annual study of how marketing professionals use meetings and events, documents a slight decrease in the percentage of marketing dollars earmarked for meeting and events and other indicators of their perceived importance...

Labor Union Unite Here’s Local 2 and the San Francisco Multi-Employer Group have reached a tentative agreement. Among the provisions are protections for the union’s health and welfare fund, pension improvements, workload reductions for...

While insurance companies continue to settle with regulators regarding allegations of anti-competitive practices such as bid rigging and price fixing, three large brokerage houses have seen restrictions eased on their ability to receive certain...

“We want APEX to be the ‘Intel inside,” said Terri Breining, chairperson of the Convention Industry Council's APEX (Accepted Practices Exchange) Initiative at the Meeting Professionals International World Education Conference in July...

While the long-term impact of the alleged terror plot in the United Kingdom in August is still unclear, some experts predict the possible implementation of stricter airline security measures could have an impact on business travelers...

How do you know what really motivates producers unless you dig deep? And how do you choose a destination that will strongly appeal to many, if not all, to satisfy your sales goals...

The requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, passed by Congress in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals, apply only to companies that file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. However, some of the principles that are...

When Caryn Taylor-Lucia, CMP, and Shelly Tsipori, CMP, of SEI bought out The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation and transformed it into a summer camp for the SEI Select Advisors Council, one attendee confessed, “I gave up a trip to Hawaii to...

The Krisam Group's Insurance Advisory Board, which met in June, continued its tradition of using the annual meeting as an opportunity to seriously discuss industry issues. “It was a group conversation between planners and suppliers,” says Doris...