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.
I just got a call from someone who knows the chef/owner of Milan, the restaurant we ate at last weekend during our trip to North Adams, Mass. Somehow, she heard about my mentioning the restaurant on face2face, and wanted to give me Milan's Web...
As I'm sure you've read or heard elsewhere, the U.S. population is growing more obese. Which makes me wonder how this impacts meetings. Airline seats are not designed for the "fluffy" among us, that's for sure. Are hotels making their chairs and...
The conferencing trend in India is toward injecting some fun into those "stressful meetings with sessions of analysis and targets," according to this article in fe Business Traveller...
That's what Harris Interactive asked in recent survey. While half the respondents said there's something they'd be willing to pay more to get while at a hotel, they didn't seem to want any one thing too badly. The winner was better Internet access...
Great idea from the Mesa, Ariz., police dept.—the Crime Free Hotel/Motel Program Turns Hotel Workers into Crime-fighters (from Hotel Online). A snip...
It's such a cliche in the meetings business, yet still true, that most of the best learning takes place outside the general sessions and breakouts. You know, the hallway track, where people meet and spark up some amazing conversations. Internet...