Welcome to our new daily newsletter! Every morning you’ll find links to stories from MeetingsNet.com and around the Web, carefully selected by us just for you, the meeting professional. Each issue is designed to be your daily stop for news...
Last October, the Federal Communications Commission fined Marriott International $600,000 for intentionally jamming some of its customers’ Wi-Fi connections in the meeting space at Gaylord Opryland Hotel & Convention Center in Nashville. Marr...
The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua, on Maui, played host to well over 60 insurance and financial services company meeting planners, guests, Ritz-Carlton representatives, and other meeting vendor partners during The Ritz-Carlton Pre-FICP Event, a weekend...
Two groups of insurance and financial services company planners, along with representatives from properties in the Preferred Hotels & Resorts portfolio, enjoyed a taste of Hawaiian beauty and luxury before and after the 2014 Financial &...
Vancouver-based QuickMobile, a leading provider of mobile event apps, has been in overdrive. Within the last month the company has brought on a new CEO, Craig Brennan, a high-tech industry veteran; rolled out a mobile app certificate program; and...
I frequently write about the limited adoption of strategic meetings management programs by organizations that are leaving themselves highly exposed from regulatory, duty-of-care, and fiduciary perspectives. Companies in the highly regulated pharm...
One of our IdeaXchange authors, SMMP expert Shimon Avish, recently published a free meeting policy assessment tool that I think is really comprehensive and, potentially really useful for those who want to be sure they're covering every base—which...
Cvent Inc., McLean, Va., is set to become an even more dominant player in the group hotel sourcing marketplace with the acquisition of Santa Barbara, Calif.–based Elite Meetings International.
Cvent, which provides planners with technology for...
As the new year begins, the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence is celebrating the industry’s recovery at the same time it commits to addressing an issue that has long been in the shadows—child sex trafficking. SITE is identifying ways it can...
