When snow and ice move into the Midwest, all is set for skiing, tobogganing, and indoor parties. But the Great Lakes don't freeze up — and neither do reasons for groups to book this area. After the boom year of 2007, when room rates and facilities...

Congratulations to the 30 properties chosen as Premium Circle Award winners in 2008, the 17th year of our awards program! Launched in 1992, these awards recognize our readers' choices for properties that excel as meeting venues. Insurance and...

Meeting Professionals International has recruited 18 high-level meeting professionals — most from large global corporations and five who are not MPI members — for a new Executive Advisory Council...

EIBTM, the Global Meetings & Incentives Exhibition, awarded its 2008 Meeting and Incentive Industry Awards in early December, when the show convened at Barcelona's Fira Gran Via. A total of 58 events were up for awards in six categories. And...

CMI announces the winners of our reader-selected 2009 Paragon Awards, recognizing the best hotels, resorts, and conference centers for successful meetings and incentives.

It would be hard to find anyone who's traveled the career path of TYRA W. HILLIARD, Esq., CMP. Having moved from meeting planner to CVB staffer to hotel catering pro to lawyer to educator, Hilliard has a rare perspective on the industry. Now, she...

Wynn Resorts' newest signature hotel, Encore, at press time was set to open on December 22 next door to flagship property Wynn Las Vegas. The 50-story-high resort will have its own collection of suites, dining options, and leisure activities...

The economy has forced meeting managers to get creative and look for deals in new places. One of those places is barter exchanges.

A slew of surveys and reports were released in the closing weeks of 2008, all highlighting the near-term economic situation, which is at best uncertain and at worst very dark indeed...