When Michael Burke, CMP, manager, conference & travel services, The Hanover Insurance Group, and Jennifer Squeglia, CMP, RLC Events, began designing a detailed best-practices study for senior-level meeting managers back in July 2008, many...
With meetings dropping off calendars from coast to coast, it's never been more important for you to stop simply planning events and start guiding your company's global meetings decisions. An SMMP gives you that power.
Four caterers reveal how to create outstanding group menus without breaking the bank.
Meeting developments are going
strong in the Lone Star State.
As CEO of Site (formerly the Society of Incentive and Travel Executives), Chicago-based BRENDA ANDERSON is a key player in efforts to lobby government and media on the importance of meetings and events to the economy. We reached her by phone in W...
It's not a glamorous process. And it doesn't happen overnight. In fact, rolling out a strategic meetings management program is a pretty labor-intensive job that's often met with some tough resistance.
Just ask Tom J. Tolvé, CMP. As Novo Nordisk'...
A sanctuary of traditional elegance — yet imbued with the relaxed feeling of the Caribbean — The Ritz-Carlton, Cancun presides over its stretch of white-sand beach like a stately grande dame. (2009 marked its 14th consecutive year as a AAA five...
The results of a LIMRA study on recognition conferences show cost-cutting is the biggest trend.
