The Convention Industry Council has launched a public messaging task force to improve the image of meetings, the latest industry effort to battle the negative public perception of events and business travel. CIC has hired Y Partnership Inc., a...

Exhibition and conference organizers headed to Amsterdam are now able to link up with Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre for help making their events at the convention center carbon-neutral...

A U.S. Senate vote has moved the Travel Promotion Act one step closer to becoming law. The act, designed to attract more international visitors to the U.S., provides for the creation of a nonprofit, public-private partnership charged with...

The Business Travel Coalition, a group that represents about 300 corporate travel departments, has joined forces with nonprofit advocacy group FlyersRights.org to support passenger-rights legislation allowing airline passengers on domestic flights...

I'm off at a disgustingly early hour tomorrow to go to Chicago for the NIQIE conference. I was looking over the attendee list today and saw a few familiar names, so hopefully even having been out of the CME world for a few years, I won't feel...

A new discount fare product for meetings has been rolled out by the Star Alliance, a network of 24 airlines around the globe, including United Airlines, US Airways, Lufthansa, Air Canada, and Singapore Airlines...

(Second of a two-part series) Read part 1: H1N1: Ignore at Your Own Risk ...

Just saw this on the CME LinkedIn group: AMA offers webinars on PI CME: ...