There's never room for everything in the pages of CMI. For more information and resources, we have our Web site (meetingsnet.com); our weekly e-newsletter, MeetingsNet Extra; and now, thanks to the prolific musings of contributing editor Sue...
ICP covers some of the destinations featured at the Motivation Show, which sometimes involve travel to wild and unusual places. In the course of my business as a speaker, I have had the opportunity to visit several wild and unusual places. They...
On August 14, Monumental Life Insurance Co.'s director of meetings and incentives, Michael Key, had just finished moving 500 Pinnacle Club qualifiers and guests (Monumental's top producers) from the Westin New York at Times Square to the Victory...
Develop a detailed security checklist for site inspections and RFPs, including items such as smoke detectors and automated defibrillators. Assess the worst area of the hotel. If the back stairwells are littered with cigarette butts, it's not a...
Beginning January 1, 2004, the 15 percent value-added tax for people attending meetings and conventions in Mexico will be eliminated. The following will now be exempt from VAT: lodging; transportation to and from the airport, or any seaport, to...
IN THE PAST 10 YEARS, hundreds of hotels and resorts have added the words “conference center” to their names. But a true conference center — one that's a member of the International Association of Conference Centers — is noticeably different and...
Number of independent planner members in MPI (Meeting Professionals International): 1,386 Number of AMMC (Alliance of Meeting Management Consultants) members: 22 Number of IMPAC (Independent Meeting Planners of Canada) members: 98