Year-end ’08 Hotel Performance Results Released
Feb 17, 2009
The world’s four regions of the hotel world—the Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe, and Middle East/Africa, as analyzed by STR Global, reported mixed year-end results for 2008, although no city reported an increase in occupancy...
Australia’s Bush Fires Spare Melbourne
Feb 17, 2009
AIME 2009, the 17th Asia-Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo, unfolded this week in Melbourne, Australia while the region’s devastating bush fires still raged in more remote areas of the state of Victoria. The expo, which took place on February...
Meeting Professionals Try to Negate the AIG Effect
Feb 13, 2009
Meeting Professionals International did a lot right at the MeetDifferent conference in Atlanta this week. First of all, the organizers completely transformed the opening general session just five weeks out. That’s unheard of in the meetings...
EventView 2009: Event Marketing Survey Finds Measurement Critical
Feb 13, 2009
Event budgets diminishing? It might be time to rethink your post-event measurement process. According to new findings from EventView 2009: North America, companies that have a process for post-event measurement are twice as likely to receive...
MPI Panelists Assess Hotel Outlook: The Perfect Storm
Feb 13, 2009
When Meeting Professionals International first brought a panel of industry experts together for a frank discussion on the meetings market last August at its World Education Congress in Las Vegas, concern about the economy predominated the...
Fire Destroys Two Conference Centers; IACC Seeks to Help
Feb 13, 2009
Raging bush fires in Australia last Saturday completely destroyed two conference centers, The Cumberland Marylands and the Marylands Country House, located in the Yarra Valley northeast of Melbourne. No one in the centers was injured, but the...
E-Petition Launches in Support of Meetings
E-Petition Launches in Support of Meetings
Feb 11, 2009
Negative publicity has been churning in the media around the meetings and incentives industry because of the perception that events organized by companies receiving emergency relief money from the federal government were inappropriate. In reactio...
Industry Response to Meeting Restrictions Shifts into High Gear
Feb 10, 2009
In a hastily called, but packed session at Meeting Professionals International’s MeetDifferent conference, being held in Atlanta this week, Christine Duffy, president and CEO of Maritz Travel, and Jonathan Howe, JD, president, senior partner, Howe...
Model Guidelines for TARP Fund Recipients
Feb 10, 2009
In reaction to the U.S. Treasury Department’s new guidelines for companies receiving funds from its Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Meeting, Event, and Incentive Coalition has developed a model policy for approval of meetings, events, and...
Treasury Department TARP Guidelines Target Meetings
Feb 10, 2009
The Treasury Department has released new guidelines on executive compensation and other expenditures—including provisions related to meetings and travel—for companies participating in the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the name given to the $700...
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