“I see meetings as the engine that drives the organization,” says Barbara Burgess, chief executive officer, Pathways Home Health, Hospice, and Private Duty, Sunnyvale, Calif. Meetings are where decisions are made and agreements are locked down...

Being the meeting planner at Chester, Pa. — based software solutions company AdminServer might be a really fun job. That is, as long as you don't mind that nobody knows you are the planner...

The Trade Show Exhibitors Association and John Buttine Inc. have teamed up to offer a new insurance program for exhibitors: ShowDown Exhibitor Cancellation of Event Insurance. The plan covers an exhibitor's costs if something happens to keep them...

Last year was the first time I heard how pharmaceutical giant Novartis used incentives to get employees to use their centralized meeting department. Basically, they came up with a system in which accounting returns some of the savings that...

The SITE Foundation, the research arm of the Society of Incentive & Travel Executives, is taking unprecedented steps to define the incentive industry for the rest of the world and to support more research in the European incentive market...

When Alticor instituted a meeting policy five years ago, the new rules said that every meeting of 10 or more people that required room nights had to be registered and planned through the company's meetings department. As anyone who has tried to...

With greater emphasis on corporate events as marketing tools, it's critical to put on an event that stands out. To learn how, we consulted with James Gilmore, founder of Strategic Horizons, an Aurora, Ohio — based consulting company, and co-author...

INTERPRETER (noun) 1. one who translates orally for parties conversing in different languages ...