Digital media are becoming an increasingly important part of the marketing mix for corporate and exhibition management professionals, according to a report issued last week by the Center for Exhibition Industry Research and the experience...
The average meeting planner expects to cancel or postpone meetings worth $560,000 in room revenue in 2009 and 2010, according to a recent survey conducted by the Professional Convention Management Association, American Express, and the Y...
Betsy Myers, chief operating officer and senior advisor for the Obama for America campaign, will take the stage on July 10 to accept Meeting Professionals International’s first RISE Award on behalf of her organization...
Tony Carey, CMP, CMM, U.K.-based writer, speaker, and consultant to the international meetings industry, died on June 2 at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer...
Facing months of intense scrutiny of meetings, companies have canceled program after program for no other reason than how those events might be perceived by the public and by shareholders...
Last week, InXpo Inc., the Chicago-based virtual event company, announced a partnership with Maritz, its second deal with a major meeting and event company in the past two months...
Four years after discontinuing its Delta Meeting Network program, Delta Air Lines plans to roll out a new program that will offer special rates for meetings customers...
The Convention Industry Council has endorsed the Professional Convention Management Association’s online prep course as the “official study course” for CIC’s Certified Meeting Professional exam...
As budgets tighten and corporate meeting managers find they are taking on additional work with fewer resources, many are looking for ways to automate and streamline the planning process. To take advantage of the market opportunity, American...
