The Professional Convention Management Association has teamed up with Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide to offer a program that allows PCMA members to use Starwood Preferred Planner and Starwood Preferred Guest award points, or Starpoints...

Two top destinations have put noteworthy twists on their marketing campaigns aimed at meeting executives. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is using ads not only to promote itself, but to promote the value of meetings in general. And...

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Starwood Hotels & Resorts and StarCite, the Philadelphia-based meeting technology company, have agreed on a new partnership that will allow meeting planner’s electronic requests for proposal sent from StarCite’s online marketplace to directly...

Mingle360’s handheld networking tool, MingleStick, has been generating some buzz since it debuted last year, but its most significant introduction to the meetings industry may be next month at TS2, the trade show about trade shows, when each...

When the planning committee for this year’s Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Education Forum came up with the theme “Changemakers: Moving Mountains,” they perfectly described the challenges faced by members in recent months, as they...

The board of the directors of the National Business Travel Association voted last week to continue to pursue a merger with the Association of Corporate Travel Executives. However, the issue is at a standstill. ACTE had voted the previous week not...