Marriott International and The Hotel Talisa Vail recently hosted the Insurance & Financial Services Forum in Vail, Colo., with 45 meetings and events professionals along with Marriott International corporate leaders and key hotel insurance and...
Global Meetings and Incentives, a Boca Raton, Fla.-based independent meeting planning company, has been acquired. The new owner, ABC Global Services, also based in Boca Raton, provides negotiated hotel discounts, a hotel booking engine, and other...
WINiT for Women, a career development network for women in the travel, meeting, event, and exhibition industries, is being acquired by the Global Business Travel Association. The announcement came at GBTA’s annual convention being held this...
Last week, CNN reported on cost-cutting measures being considered by the Transportation Security Administration, including the idea of eliminating security screening checkpoints at more than 150 small and medium-size airports across the...
A new MeetingsNet survey highlights just how pervasive sexual harassment is in the meetings industry and the workplace—and crowdsources ideas on how to combat it.
Fifty-six percent of female meeting executives say they’ve been sexually harassed in a professional environment. This and more from MeetingsNet’s new survey on harassment in the meetings industry and the workplace.
It’s not enough to just have a sexual harassment policy or meeting code of conduct if it isn’t enforced or doesn’t have any real consequences for the harasser. But creating one—or ensuring your existing policy has real teeth—is a good place to...
