The high-profile launch of Reed Travel Exhibitions’ first U.S. conference—the Americas Incentive Business Travel & Meetings Exhibition—will be delayed at least a year, according to RTE Meetings and Incentive Events Group Exhibition Director...
The world’s four regions of the hotel world—the Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe, and Middle East/Africa, as analyzed by STR Global, reported mixed year-end results for 2008, although no city reported an increase in occupancy...
AIME 2009, the 17th Asia-Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo, unfolded this week in Melbourne, Australia while the region’s devastating bush fires still raged in more remote areas of the state of Victoria. The expo, which took place on February...
Meeting Professionals International did a lot right at the MeetDifferent conference in Atlanta this week. First of all, the organizers completely transformed the opening general session just five weeks out. That’s unheard of in the meetings...
As companies continue to reevaluate upcoming recognition programs in light of public perception issues engendered by media coverage of these programs, we hear frequent media reports about canceled incentive conferences. But while companies are...
Event budgets diminishing? It might be time to rethink your post-event measurement process. According to new findings from EventView 2009: North America, companies that have a process for post-event measurement are twice as likely to receive...
When Meeting Professionals International first brought a panel of industry experts together for a frank discussion on the meetings market last August at its World Education Congress in Las Vegas, concern about the economy predominated the...
Raging bush fires in Australia last Saturday completely destroyed two conference centers, The Cumberland Marylands and the Marylands Country House, located in the Yarra Valley northeast of Melbourne. No one in the centers was injured, but the...
Negative publicity has been churning in the media around the meetings and incentives industry because of the perception that events organized by companies receiving emergency relief money from the federal government were inappropriate. In reactio...
In a hastily called, but packed session at Meeting Professionals International’s MeetDifferent conference, being held in Atlanta this week, Christine Duffy, president and CEO of Maritz Travel, and Jonathan Howe, JD, president, senior partner, Howe...
