Marriott International is changing the rules about how commissions are paid to independent meeting planners and other group intermediaries. After January 1, 2007, contracts for meetings convening after June 1, 2007, will include a clause that says...

Call it aversion to change, or just part of the democratic process of an association. A series of proposed bylaw changes has created a backlash among certain members of the Society of Incentive and Travel Executives, who have blasted the entire...

The Society of Incentive and Travel Executives has tapped its former CEO and well-known industry leader Bob G. Vitagliano, CITE, to become executive director of the International SITE Foundation, its new research arm. The ISF will replace the SITE...

It will be the first opportunity for many industry professionals to see New Orleans post-Katrina as 2,500 are expected to attend Meeting Professionals International’s 2007 Professional Education Conference-North America, January 20 to 23 at the...

Thanks! One word can make such a difference. That was the thinking behind www.thanks.com, a new Web site developed by recognition solutions specialists at O.C. Tanner, Salt Lake City. Through this portal of thank-you ideas, users can send their...

The Meetings Community, a listserv for meeting planning professionals, launched a job board in October. The service is free to organizations posting jobs and to those seeking jobs. At press time in late November, the list of posted jobs was small...

Among the highlights of the third annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum in March at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia will be a thought-leaders panel discussion. Carol Krugman, CMP, CMM, will be front and center in the...

Increasingly, Large Corporations are targeting former employees in their recruiting and business development efforts, and alumni events are a key element in this strategy...