Dan ColeEditor's note: Today’s guest post is by Dan Cole, senior vice president, trade shows and exhibits, with Hargrove. Annual meetings can be costly for organizations. Themes change, logos change, and, no matter where you go, you need new d...

During a road show in early December, Diane Anderson, regional director, northeast, for NYC & Company, traveled with some New York City hotel representatives to introduce meeting planners to new developments and offer some tips for booking a...

Many conference organizers provide potential attendees with templates and tools designed to convince the boss to approve their participation. These are cost/benefit tools with boilerplate copy. Quantifying the expense side is straightforward. The...

Virgin America's Protein Plate mealEvery year the Diet Detective (Charles Platkin, Ph.D.) calls the airlines to request nutrition information for the foods they serve economy-class passengers on domestic flights, and turns this information into a...

One reason hotel executive Michael Dominguez is so popular as a meetings industry speaker is that no matter how fast he talks (and it’s pretty fast), he never loses his audience, even as he synthesizes large amounts of data and translates...

PPlanning a daylong hybrid meeting that includes live interaction with more than 600 participants in 80 countries is not for the faint of heart. But Pat Ahaesy, CMP, CSEP, president and partner of Manhattan-based P&V Enterprises, a certified woma...

In sales, you’re only as good as your last sale. In meeting planning, you’re only as good as your last meeting. Or so it seems. There is immense pressure to deliver more, better, faster, and with less...

Michael Dominguez gives a keynote presentation at the 2015 FICP Annual ConferenceThe ever-quotable Michael Dominguez, senior vice president and chief sales officer, MGM International, launched a recent keynote presentation with a favorite quotati...