It seems that convention and visitors bureaus get a bad rap from corporate meeting managers. The gripes: CVBs are too association-focused, they take care of only citywides, they don't value corporate business, they send leads to every member hotel...
We've all been there: A speaker asks the audience to please turn off their BlackBerrys and cellphones. Not everyone listens. When this happened during a recent industry meeting I attended, the planner sitting next to me, BlackBerry on her lap...
In the first two weeks of February, NASD (the governing body for securities firms) sanctioned several companies, including Fidelity Investments, for violations of regulations applying to gifts, entertainment, and meetings...
International Travel is always an adventure because it's fun to see new things, eat new foods, and have people curse at me in new languages. But the best thing about traveling to foreign countries is to see what they have built...
There's no question that strategic meeting management is no longer just the purview of a handful of Fortune 500 companies with large, centralized meeting departments. In Meeting Professionals International's 2007 FutureWatch survey, presented at...
The hottest trend in new hotel development these days is condo hotels. "They are all over the place," says Patrick Ford, president, Lodging Econometrics, Portsmouth, N.H., including major convention cities like Chicago, Las Vegas, and Orlando...
A panel of experts gathered at MeetNow! 2007 in New Haven, Conn., to delve into the sticky ethical issues that plague the meeting and hospitality industry. The panel, part of a conference sponsored by the WestField and Connecticut River Valley...
Move over, “green meeting.” Enter the “carbon-neutral event.” When you bring groups together for a meeting, you are by nature increasing greenhouse gases as people fly and drive to your event. While there, attendees will consume many megawatts of...
Europe’s two major international meeting and incentive travel exhibitions—IMEX, a spring show in Frankfurt, and EIBTM, a late fall show in Barcelona—continue to woo attendees with generous hosted-buyer programs and a growing slate of seminars and...
