I'm pleased to announce ICP's first annual recognition of our industry's “rising stars”: meeting planners who are guiding their departments through challenging times with skill, ingenuity, and a whole lot of hard work...
We basked for so long in the glow of an ever-expanding economy and a strong meeting market that planners and hoteliers may have forgotten what a buyer's market is like. And many haven't forgotten — they never knew...
ATTRITION The Clause: The Hotel will allow Group 10 percent room block shrinkage without any liquidated damage payment. For shrinkage over and above this allowance, the Hotel will require payment from Group for each unused room night at the...
Why not give your attendees a chance to play in one of baseball's classic “green cathedrals”? At Big League Dreams Sports Parks, groups can play ball (albeit softball) at a replica classic ballpark. In Cathedral City, Calif., the company has built...
A new kind of contract is shooting holes in the way business has always been done between meeting planners and hotels. Known as “bulletproof contracts,” these tightly written, highly definitive contracts, which are heavily weighted toward hotels...
According to a new survey, U.S. companies spent 16.5 percent less on air travel in 2001 than they did in 2000. Furthermore, says the survey, it's looking like business travel will continue to decline despite an economy that's been inching its way...
"You can’t make the assumption anymore that that five o’clock flight out is going to be there like it always was," says Christine Duffy, president and COO of Philadelphia-based McGettigan Partners. "In the past, meeting planners didn’t give much...
You gotta play by the rules. That's what everyone says. But who knew there would be so many laws of the links? We asked our advisory board what they wish they had known when they first slipped on the cleats and picked up a putter. Here's what some...
