Feeling relaxed in Aruba I have espoused many times that the Caribbean is among the most amazing places in the world. My recent trip to Aruba to do site inspections further cemented my love for this beautiful region. Aruba is a tiny island...

Still buzzing and breaking records, IMEX America 2015 closed out October 15 with IMEX Group Chairman Ray Bloom announcing the show’s impressive final numbers. Setting up at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas this year were 3,100 exhibiting companies rep...

A new survey from American Express Meetings and Events finds mostly positive indicators from meetings across the board, and across the globe.  

The meetings and events industry has been pursuing meetings consolidation since the 1990s, including total meetings spend management, savings measures, technology, standard processes. Now, 20 years later&hellip...

Outside the buzz and swirl of the IMEX America 2015 show floor at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas this week, IMEX Group CEO Carina Bauer sat down to talk about the show and the meetings industry as a whole. It was at last year’s IMEX America that ...

I ran across these 11 best customer service stories ever on Mental Floss and they just made my day. It's so easy to focus on the bad stories—of which, unfortunately, there are all too many—but let's take a moment to celebrate all the ways, great ...

David Stankiewicz, project manager/strategic programs with IEEE, a professional association for the advancement of technology, showed how meeting planners can use Google+ Hangouts to enhance an event by, well, using Google+ Hangouts to speak at a...

I went to a fantastic, interactive, and tips-filled session at the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting in Detroit this summer on the topic of planning meetings outside the U.S. The august panel—Cameron Curtis, Courtesy Assoc...