BRUCE HARRIS, CMP PRESIDENT, CONFERON GLOBAL SERVICES ...

SOMETIMES, THE MEETING INDUSTRY MEDIA, in its search for something new to report, gets caught up in promoting whatever it's fed — even if it has little effect on most readers. I'm not here to tout the industry associations' agendas, or those of...

Meeting Professionals International bestowed its annual awards at the World Education Conference in July...

DON'T TALK TO LYNN RIDZON ABOUT ROI. She's too busy saving her company millions of dollars to think about it...

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THREE YEARS AGO, American Fidelity Assurance Co., based in Oklahoma City, Okla., jetted its sales incentive winners halfway around the world. The Hong Kong excursion was “a great trip,” says Brett Barrowman, vice president, conference and travel...

Whether they're willing to admit it or not, almost everyone is an Apprentice junkie at some level. So for its sales incentive meeting in New Orleans, FoxHollow Technologies, Redwood City, Calif., hired Ovation Corp. (www.ovationcorporation.com) to...

EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION appears to be shedding its “soft” image as new research proves its bottom-line benefits and more companies start their own programs...

IT'S NO SECRET that the International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus has been going through an identity crisis. So, after a review of its brand and with the overwhelming approval of its members, the association has changed its name...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, the organization responsible for managing the Internet's domain name system, this spring announced a new top-level domain: .travel. Any organization in the global travel community...