The face2face MeetingsNet blog is an eclectic mix of news about meetings and events, hospitality, and business travel, along with helpful hints and the occasional rant.
It sounds like Houston is getting ready to join Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, and Philadelphia in filing a lawsuit against Internet travel booking sites for not paying their fair share of taxes. (Previous stories here and here.) Is...
I was listening to the radio on the way to a meeting this morning when I heard, as a tribute to opening day at Boston's Fenway Park, the classic Abbott & Costello "Who's on First" routine. I laughed so hard my stomach hurt. So, apropos of...
As I was cleaning out my daily spam, I ran across this delightful missive that put together phrases that for some reason caught my eye, like "visionary shampoo," "pragmatic repulsion," and "drunken curler of a travel agent"--that last one really...
Kitty Ratcliffe is leaving her post as executive vice president of the Metropolitan New Orleans CVB to take on the presidency of the St. Louis CVC, according to ...
Jeffrey Brown over at Tradeshow Life just announced a new award program: The Tradeshow & Event Enthusiast of the Year Awards. So if you or someone you know deserves an honor, skip on over and nominate them. There are lots of categories to...
As one person noted at our Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, meeting planners are their own worst enemy sometimes—by managing to get things done in less and less time, short lead times are becoming the norm (short lead times were the #1...
With the exception of a relatively small number of people who have, it appears, caught the bird flu from their resident fowl, bird flu to date is mainly a danger to birds. And yet some people are already changing their travel plans out of fear of...