In reaction to the U.S. Treasury Department’s new guidelines for companies receiving funds from its Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Meeting, Event, and Incentive Coalition has developed a model policy for approval of meetings, events, and...
The Treasury Department has released new guidelines on executive compensation and other expenditures—including provisions related to meetings and travel—for companies participating in the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the name given to the $700...
The Meetings Community, the three-year-old, volunteer-driven meetings-industry listserv and Web site, plans to incorporate as a non-profit association before the end of the year...
How to survive the current economic crisis was a running theme of the opening general session at Meeting Professionals International¹s MeetDifferent conference, which kicked off on Sunday. MPI Chairman Larry Luteran, Hilton Hotels Corp.¹s senior...
Wells Fargo is actively defending itself against what it calls “intentionally misleading” press reports that forced it to cancel a four-day business and recognition event scheduled for Las Vegas...
Well-known industry veteran John Jeffrey, formerly with Starwood Hotels & Resorts, has launched Global InSites, a site selection and hotel sourcing company targeted to insurance conference planners.
Jeffrey describes his new role as a “go-to per...
New oversight regulations for financial institutions that receive money from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief Program has the meetings industry speaking out to defend the value of conferences and events. In addition to new...
The trend in large corporations is toward “strategic meetings management,” meaning that enterprise meeting spend gets tracked and leveraged, the request-for-proposal process is managed according to company policy, and contracting is centralized to...
Global Events Partners, a partnership of destination management companies, announced it has acquired Atlanta Arrangements Inc., a DMC that has been operating in Atlanta for 40 years. Atlanta Arrangements was previously an independently owned GEP...
Marriott International launched a new online training program for third-party meeting planners this week called Meetings Excellence!, which earns planners certification as a “Marriott Meeting Professional.” The course is part of the Marriott Group...
