Among the many groups hoping that the Obama administration will embrace its priorities for change is the National Business Travel Association, focused on issues affecting corporate travel managers. NBTA's agenda includes modernization and funding...

Work with administrative assistants—not against them—to manage meetings.

Vice president of industry relations for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, based in Washington, D.C...

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GuideStar Research's MeetingMetrics has taken home the 2008 technology prize from EIBTM, the Barcelona, Spain-based meetings and incentives exhibition. The show's annual WorldWide Technology Watch competition, chaired by Corbin Ball, CMP, CSP...

Anyone who believes the saying, “Nothing in life is free,” hasn't been introduced to Triad, the Minnetonka, Minn.-based meeting and event management company. Triad has made a practice of offering its services pro bono to a local non-profit...

Sticker shock. That's what American golf-loving groups were getting when they considered a meeting or incentive in the birthplace of golf, St. Andrews, Scotland, earlier this year when the U.S. dollar was weak — and getting weaker by the day...

This week started with the European Union and Japan making official declarations that they are in a recession. Citigroup announced plans to layoff more than 50,000 employees by early '09. In our industry, American Express, BCD, and Carlson were in...