The world’s four regions of the hotel world—the Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe, and Middle East/Africa, as analyzed by STR Global, reported mixed year-end results for 2008, although no city reported an increase in occupancy...

AIME 2009, the 17th Asia-Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo, unfolded this week in Melbourne, Australia while the region’s devastating bush fires still raged in more remote areas of the state of Victoria. The expo, which took place on February...

Meeting Professionals International did a lot right at the MeetDifferent conference in Atlanta this week. First of all, the organizers completely transformed the opening general session just five weeks out. That’s unheard of in the meetings...

As companies continue to reevaluate upcoming recognition programs in light of public perception issues engendered by media coverage of these programs, we hear frequent media reports about canceled incentive conferences. But while companies are...

Event budgets diminishing? It might be time to rethink your post-event measurement process. According to new findings from EventView 2009: North America, companies that have a process for post-event measurement are twice as likely to receive...