BEWARE: If your accounting department hasn't yet taken an interest in your meeting spend documentation, it will. That's because section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act — a bill enacted in 2002 to increase corporate responsibility and curtail...

Tickets go on sale next month for the 2006 Ryder Cup, to be held September 20-24 at the prestigious Kildare Golf and Country Club, Straffan, County Kildare. Dozens of companies are handling corporate and incentive group travel for the event...

JUST WHAT EXACTLY IS BUSINESS CASUAL? It's a question that meeting planners are often asked by their attendees. But planners can quell attendees' concerns with some simple guidelines on what is acceptable as business casual and what is not, says...

THE YEAR WAS 1974, and Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder topped the music charts. Richard M. Nixon became the first U.S. president to resign. Patricia Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. And “Ten-Cent Beer Night” in Cleveland was...

THE MEETING INDUSTRY lost a friend in January when John Yaskin, senior vice president of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, died of cancer at age 48...

Timor-Leste in southeast Asia, Pau in southwest France, and Cameroon in Africa are celebrating their entry onto the show floor at IMEX, a worldwide exhibition for incentive travel, meetings, and events April 19-21 at Messe Frankfurt, Germany. Each...

They manage events, they manage meetings, but somehow destination management companies don't manage to get much exposure. In its December 2004 issue, Special Events Magazine, CMI's sister publication, profiled 25 of the biggest DMCs. Here are a...

WHILE PARTICIPATING in a panel discussion last month at The Luxury Show in New York City, it struck me how hard it is to be a supplier in our industry...

FEW WOULD ARGUE that milling about at coffee breaks or walking aisles of eager exhibitors is the most efficient way to network. Yet that's the business model. Lanyards around our necks, business cards at the ready, we work the sessions, the booths...