New oversight regulations for financial institutions that receive money from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief Program has the meetings industry speaking out to defend the value of conferences and events. In addition to new...

The trend in large corporations is toward “strategic meetings management,” meaning that enterprise meeting spend gets tracked and leveraged, the request-for-proposal process is managed according to company policy, and contracting is centralized to...

Global Events Partners, a partnership of destination management companies, announced it has acquired Atlanta Arrangements Inc., a DMC that has been operating in Atlanta for 40 years. Atlanta Arrangements was previously an independently owned GEP...

If you could be anywhere in the world, where would you be? On the Delta in Botswana What's playing on your iPod? If I owned an iPod, what would be playing would depend on what I was doing — meditating, exercising, dancing, entertaining friends...

Leaders from across the meetings industry gathered last month in New Orleans to launch an advocacy and research initiative to determine the economic impact of the meetings industry. While the Convention Industry Council has done economic impact...

The number of social networking tools has exploded to the point where some people have been tuning out altogether. There's even a term for it: social networking fatigue...