Ellis Hotel, a boutique property in downtown Atlanta that features 127 rooms and suites, has undergone a $700,000 renovation that includes a refresh of its meeting space, and of its women-only floor. This floor provides female guests with private...

View of the Pennsylvania Convention CenterIn a move that came as a surprise to the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board last week reversed its dismissal of complaints by the Metropolitan Regional Cou...

While convention and visitors bureaus (also known as destination marketing organizations) provide informational, logistical, and other services that meeting and event planners traditionally expect, these entities have stepped up their game to...

I just checked out something called Crystal, a site that can profile anyone who has an online presence, then tell you how you can best communicate with that person. Kind of like Myers-Briggs or the PACE Color Palette only fast, automated, and no ...

Reed Expositions introduced AIBTM: The Americas Meetings and Events Exhibition, in 2011, holding the annual hosted-buyer event and trade show in Baltimore, Orlando, and Chicago. For 2015 Reed has totally revamped its model. The renamed ibtm ameri...

Hotels for Hope launches a new hotel booking platform designed to make its charitable-giving-through-hotel-room-booking more personal and compelling.

Some 120 corporate meeting professionals and Las Vegas suppliers gathered for MeetingsNet’s 16th annual Las Vegas Corporate Invitational this week, offering meeting planners a taste of the city’s wide variety of conference and group incentive opt...

At the signing of the Mexico meetings industry agreement on North American Meetings Industry Day (from left): Rocio Mejia, president, MPI Mexico; Eric Alvarez, president, PCMA Mexico; Jose Luis Rangel, executive director, Mexico Tourism Board; Fr...