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: ...

Yup, that's billion with a "b." Biggest settlement ever for improper marketing practices. Here's the story in the WSJ, though it's everywhere today: Pfizer to Plead Guilty To Improper Marketing. Among the charges the settlement covers: ...

From Policy and Medicine: University of Wisconsin CME: Dean Directs Sunshine on Journal Sentinel Attacks. It sounds like the university's CME activities were called into question in recent editorials and articles in the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal...

James Montague, president of the Professional Meeting Planner’s Network in Durham, N.C., always said that the plan was to establish a not-for-profit meeting planning organization to support the Medical Meeting Manager Certificate program PMPN...