Jeffrey Broudy, executive vice president, United Incentives, Inc., and IRF former chairman, receiving the first-ever IRF Visionary Award from IRF Chairwoman Sandi Daniel (right), and Janet Traphagen, executive vice present, sales, Creative Group...
Some 150 corporate meeting professionals and Las Vegas suppliers gathered for MeetingsNet’s 16th annual Las Vegas Corporate Invitational in April, offering meeting planners a taste of the city’s wide variety of conference and group...
In our annual Incentive Travel Trends survey done in partnership with the Incentive Research Foundation (full results available in the April MeetingsNet magazine app or in our digital edition), we asked respondents to name two emerging countries...
Click on the link below to read the annual joint survey by MeetingsNet and the Incentive Research Foundation. We dig deep into the year in incentive travel, drawing on survey responses from both in-house planners and third-party incentive...
In 2009, British newspapers had a field day blasting a gift given by U.S. President Barack Obama to U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The gift of 25 DVDs of classic American movies was weak, the papers said, held up against the Prime Minister’s g...
A new report from the Incentive Research Foundation draws on previous and upcoming research to identify "10 Trends for Merchandise and Gift Card Programs in 2015."...
Orly Sorokina’s thought-provoking post on the Hootsuite blog, 3 Marketing Lessons from Internet Easter Eggs, in fact did get me thinking that these inside jokes and hidden gems could be a really fun way to get potential attendees engaged with you...
A meeting planner’s site inspection is a hotel’s chance to show off its service, staff, facilities, responsiveness—or, as in our collection of stories here, a chance for a property to shoot itself in the foot. Have you experienced any of these...
"Frankly, I think the site visit is the most important part of the game plan for a successful program," says one longtime corporate meeting professional. In fact, it can make or break a hotel's prospects for booking a meeting, as we found out...
