After two years of consulting with each other on the content for their annual meetings, the Professional Convention Management Association and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives announced plans for a strategic alliance that will expand...

Survey finds that physicians still value exhibits at medical meetings even without the giveaways

Airlines, in a seemingly never-ending bid to supplement their revenues, are adding yet again to an already dizzying array of fees. This summer, both U.S. Airways and United Airlines will charge passengers a $5 service fee if they choose to check...

The Professional Convention Management Association has teamed up with Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide to offer a program that allows PCMA members to use Starwood Preferred Planner and Starwood Preferred Guest award points, or Starpoints...

Two top destinations have put noteworthy twists on their marketing campaigns aimed at meeting executives. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is using ads not only to promote itself, but to promote the value of meetings in general. And...

Starwood Hotels & Resorts and StarCite, the Philadelphia-based meeting technology company, have agreed on a new partnership that will allow meeting planner’s electronic requests for proposal sent from StarCite’s online marketplace to directly...

Mingle360’s handheld networking tool, MingleStick, has been generating some buzz since it debuted last year, but its most significant introduction to the meetings industry may be next month at TS2, the trade show about trade shows, when each...

A proposed ban on gifts to physicians and other healthcare practitioners in Iowa was stripped out of the state’s healthcare reform bill before Gov. Chet Culver signed it into law on May 19...

The board of the directors of the National Business Travel Association voted last week to continue to pursue a merger with the Association of Corporate Travel Executives. However, the issue is at a standstill. ACTE had voted the previous week not...