The president of Krisam Group and Global Events Partners takes the pulse of international meetings.

With U.S. companies keeping their meetings close to home, it’s the association market that yields clues to the most popular emerging meeting destinations on the international scene...

Effective January 20, inbound travelers to the United States from Visa Waiver Program countries may be denied boarding by the airlines if they haven’t complied with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Electronic System for Travel...

The new Seabourn Odyssey prepares for its first world cruise

Meeting planners should get to know the U.S. Electronic System for Travel Authorization program, says Helen Marano, director, tourism industries at the U.S. Office of Travel and Tourism in Washington. ESTA requires that all international travelers...

Education theme is "Business without Boundaries."

When staff of Meeting Professionals International chose Cancun, Mexico, for the association’s 2010 MeetDifferent conference, it had many hotel options from which to choose. After several site inspections, MPI settled on Moon Palace, the crown...

You can’t ignore the reports of violence in Acapulco. But you should get all the facts. Earlier this year, Alonzo Peña, U.S. Department of Homeland Security attaché to Mexico, explained, “Violence in Mexico is not as dangerous to U.S. tourists as...

The incentive conference had been booked for two years at a resort in Cancun. Then reports of violence related to drug trafficking in Mexico began to surface, and then increase...

Los Cabos, located at the southernmost tip of the 1,000-mile long Baja California Peninsula, comprises two small and very different towns—lively Cabo San Lucas and laid-back San Jose del Cabo—that are joined by a 20-mile corridor of seaside...