A call to action galvanized a robust turnout of 45 planners and 30 hospitality partners at the Northeast Regional Summer Meeting of Financial & Insurance Conference Planners, July 26-28 at MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Mashantucket, Conn. Speaking...

There wasn't a dry eye in the house when Michael Hamamoto took the podium at the final networking event of the Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Education Forum, held at The Broadmoor in June. Michael, then a high-school senior in...

Meeting budgets have been slashed and you are stuck trying to provide a Dom Perignon experience on a Schlitz budget.

What’s new on the FICP Hospitality Partners front

The meetings and incentives industry will be GLAD TO BID FAREWELL TO 2009, a year of economic turmoil, bad press, and relentless meeting cancellations. So let's crack open that fortune cookie and look ahead.

The 2009 FICP Annual Conference, Northern Exposure … Unlimited Opportunities, takes place at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel November 15-18. Among the 35 education sessions will be discussion on best practices, increasing your value, strategic...

Union contracts expired at 62 hotels in San Francisco on August 14, at 37 hotels in Chicago on August 31 at midnight, and are scheduled for renewal at a number of Los Angeles hotels in November. When contracts expired in 2004 in San Francisco...

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A tornado that struck downtown Minneapolis August 19 caused an estimated $350,000 to $500,000 worth of damage to the Minneapolis Convention Center, according to Meet Minneapolis, the city’s convention and visitors association. Repairs to the...