The Convention Industry Council has launched what could be the most ambitious study ever on the economic impact of the meetings industry, sending out surveys on April 1 to meeting planners at its 32 member organizations...
Each year since 2004 the IMEX TechTap, a technology focused stand at the Frankfurt-based exhibition for meetings and incentive travel, has showcased meetings-related technologies, many of which are new products or first-time exhibitors...
Hyatt Hotels and Resorts has shown it has a sense of humor (for a company, anyway) with a series of new videos poking fun at meeting planners on the comedy site Funny or Die. Meeting planners will enjoy the satirical portrayal of their peers, who...
The Convention Industry Council’s Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX), through its relationship with ASTM International, has been named to an international committee tasked with creating a worldwide standard for sustainable events in time for the...
Despite some of the gloomy projections out there, Atlanta–based business travel consulting firm Advito saw a double-digit increase in corporate travel in the first quarter of 2010.
For three weeks, Jennifer Dela-Cruz, CMP, senior meeting planner at Toronto-based RBC, Canada’s largest bank, helped her company’s executives and clients have a once-in-a-lifetime experience at the 2010 Olympic Games—and enjoyed her own adventure...
