Edgy meeting planners looking to hedge their bets might think about cancellation insurance. But they should think twice if they expect it to cover some of the current challenges to meetings and incentive programs...

Only a few years ago, T1-speed Internet access in a hotel's ballroom and guest rooms was still a pretty neat story. Today, wireless access is the buzz, and lately we've been blitzed with major announcements from hotel chains pushing into the Wi-Fi...

For months, our country was in a constant state of anxiety as we waited to see if we would go to war. Now, we're anxious about when things will settle down and people can get back to traveling internationally. In the midst of all this, there's the...

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Money made the top of the list as a “meaningful reward for a job well done” in a recent survey by the Society for Incentive & Travel Executives Foundation. Some 91 percent of respondents — a cross-section of working Americans — said they...

Benchmark Hospitality's Urban Meeting Package is a hit with planners who want to use downtown venues as a dining or evening option. The UMP, which allows planners to unbundle the CMP so attendees can dine on their own, is available at The...

EDGY MEETING planners might think about cancellation insurance. But they might think twice if they expect it to cover some of the current challenges to successful meetings and incentives...

IMEX, the Worldwide Exhibition for incentive travel, meetings, and events, debuted April 8 to 10 in Frankfurt, Germany, during one of the most difficult times in the history of the incentive industry. There were few planner or exhibitor...

At one time, the paperwork for international meeting attendees to get a visa to enter the United States was largely a formality. Not anymore. The visa bottleneck clogged after 9/11, and most observers expect the situation to worsen before it eases...

She's been called The Martha Stewart of Wine, even The Dutchess of Cork. She's Christine Ansbacher, CWE (Certified Wine Expert), and she's a hot ticket as a speaker at corporate events...