SMM: strategic meetings management. It’s an acronym with roots that stretch back to October 2003, when the National Business Travel Association’s newly formed Groups & Meetings Committee came up with the term and began work on a white paper on...
Tough times are the perfect times to ask employees for ideas and put those ideas to work. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc., New York, N.Y., did just that when it recently announced that it will offer its medicines for free to unemployed Americans...
When staff of Meeting Professionals International chose Cancun, Mexico, for the association’s 2010 MeetDifferent conference, it had many hotel options from which to choose. After several site inspections, MPI settled on Moon Palace, the crown...
You can’t ignore the reports of violence in Acapulco. But you should get all the facts. Earlier this year, Alonzo Peña, U.S. Department of Homeland Security attaché to Mexico, explained, “Violence in Mexico is not as dangerous to U.S. tourists as...
The incentive conference had been booked for two years at a resort in Cancun. Then reports of violence related to drug trafficking in Mexico began to surface, and then increase...
Los Cabos, located at the southernmost tip of the 1,000-mile long Baja California Peninsula, comprises two small and very different towns—lively Cabo San Lucas and laid-back San Jose del Cabo—that are joined by a 20-mile corridor of seaside...