With education identified as a top priority for ICPA, the association's 2005 Educational Forum will be its first opportunity to deliver enhanced educational content at a national meeting. A packed agenda aimed at both novice and experienced...

“Your publication is the best in the business.” — Chris White, Chairman & CEO, Global Events Partners CMI's 25th Anniversary To the Editor, It was really gratifying to be part of the CMI team once again and to recall the early days when we...

When the international professional services company Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu brought together nearly 400 new executives from corporate offices around the world at its 2004 New Partner Seminar in Los Angeles, a key objective was teaching attendees...

This past February a powerful car bomb exploded outside a convention center in Madrid, wounding dozens of people and reminding the citizens of that city that the risk of a terrorist attack is omnipresent...

Looking for the right supplier for your next event? Check out the Special Events Services Sourcebook, published by CMI's sister magazine Special Events. The new sourcebook is an online guide to event-related services of all kinds, from consultants...

DRIP, DRIP, DRIP. Hear that? That's the sound of your destination management company's profit line draining away. The business of DMCs (providing the local staff and expertise to make your transfers, tours, dine-arounds, and off-site parties a...

IF YOUR LIFE WERE MADE INTO A MOVIE, WHO WOULD PLAY YOU? Lucille Ball would play me, because, as people who know me will attest, I constantly get myself into “Lucy”-esque scenarios. IT'S TIME FOR A SECOND CAREER: WHAT DO YOU CHOOSE? Well, I...

The first week in April, a call-in radio show for the meeting industry began daily live broadcasts via the Internet. Monday through Friday, 9 to 9:30 a.m., it's all meetings talk at www.meetingradio.com...

What do you do when hotels won't book your meeting more than 60 days out, but you need to secure space at least three months in advance...