Carnival Cruise Lines recently expanded its Preferred Awards program for corporate meetings and incentives, and has added a Web site, CarnivalMeetings.com, just for meeting planners. The program now includes more ships and itineraries, and it now...

A provision restoring the tax deductibility of travel expenses of spouses who accompany partners on business trips is part of the inheritance tax/minimum wage bill passed by the House of Representatives last week...

Boston’s Logan International Airport’s Terminal A is the first airport terminal in the U.S. to receive Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The terminal joins 550 other types of projects...

The Air Travel Price Index, released last week by the U.S. Department of Transportation, rose 10.3 percent in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year—the biggest year-to-year jump since the index numbers were first...

Money may make the world go round, but if you want your people to strive higher, rather than just round and round, try offering something other than money to motivate them. So says new research from the Forum for People Performance Management and...

While the seller’s market is undoubtedly here to stay for a while, Lodging Econometrics’ mid-year report is forecasting increasing growth in new hotel inventory, up to a 2.8 percent increase in gross supply by 2008. More than 1,000 new hotels...

As of September, all U.S. and Canadian Marriott International properties--including the more than 2,300 facilities in the Marriott, JW Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, Renaissance, Courtyard, Residence Inn, SpringHill Suites, Fairfield Inn, TownePlace...

Enjoying its largest turnout ever, Meeting Professionals International welcomed more than 3,600 attendees to its World Education Conference in Dallas, its headquarters city, July 9 to 11...

Citing concerns about cost, New Orleans on July 13 officially dropped its bid to host the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and New York City are still in the running for the 2008 DNC. According to the Washington...

Outboarding, the practice of holding concurrent events not sanctioned by the official convention organizer, but that seek to garner the main event’s audience, has gotten an official thumbs down from the International Association for Exhibition...