While many hotel companies significantly loosened their cancellation and attrition policies after 9/11, it didn't take long to get back to business as usual. In some cases, that meant levying harsh penalties, even as early as October, for...
In this time of heightened awareness of security and safety issues, what's a meeting planner to do (or not do) to protect attendees? Where do you draw the line when it comes to due diligence...
Strolling through the aisles, attendees found that it was anything but business at usual at the Motivation Show in October in Chicago. Despite management's projection that the show would suffer only a 3 percent to 5 percent exhibitor cancellation...
When anthrax-laced letters reached the U.S. capitol, the national conscience turned from the overt danger of knives, box cutters, and bombs to the invisible threat of bioterrorism. Many people — including your meeting attendees — are worried...
New Incentive Industry Trade Show — Ray Bloom and Paul Flackett, who launched EIBTM in Geneva in 1988 and sold it to Reed Exhibitions in 1998, have announced a competing industry show, to debut in Frankfurt, Germany, April 8 to 10, 2003. Dubbed...
While the trend started when the economy began to sputter, world events have sped it along: Merchandise, gift-certificate, and debit-card incentives are up; travel incentives are down...
