The Lynette Owens & Associates Summer Insurance Advisory Council went international this year, meeting from Wednesday, July 18, to Monday, July 23, at two of Jamaica's loveliest all-inclusive, AAA 4-diamond resorts, the 210 room Grand Lido...
The key for planners looking to get a return on investment from hotel food and beverage is to work closely with the conference services manager and turn in complete banquet event orders. This was the advice given during a packed breakout session...
Meeting and Incentive Travel Strategies is one of four learning tracks being offered at this year’s Motivation Show. The event, September 25 to 27 at Chicago’s McCormick Place, has upgraded its education and is now offering an Executive Leadership...
Meeting planners, convention and visitors bureau executives, and hoteliers gathered last week at the Passkey Housing Forum in Boston to hash out how to get a handle on some of today’s tough conference housing challenges. Passkey provides online...
Concern about the environment, and a realization that going green makes business sense, are driving the robust trend toward green meetings. That was one of the points that came across during a recent Financial and Insurance Conference Planners...
The Independent Meeting Planners Association of Canada has rebranded itself as the Canadian Society of Professional Event Planners. The 12-year-old, 130-member organization also announced a new Web site, www.cspep.ca.
This morning, Hurricane Dean slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula with sustained winds of 165 mph and gusts of 200 mph. The eye of the storm is just north of the Mexico-Belize border, passing south of the resort areas of Cancun, Cozumel, and...
At its annual meeting this week in Chicago, ASAE and the Center for Association Leadership announced the formation of a new meeting, the Global Summit on Social Responsibility...
Corporations are putting a higher priority on mandating that employees use business travel booking policies, according to BCD Travel’s 2007 Annual Client Benchmark Survey—a trend that is also creeping into meetings and incentive travel policy...
