Experient, the Twinsburg, Ohio–based meeting and event services provider, has named Rick Binford, CMP, to the role of executive vice president sales and marketing—the company’s top sales leadership position. Binford has been with Experient for...
After American International Group’s cancellation of about 160 meetings, the question on the minds of many meetings industry observers is: How much will the company pay in cancellation fees for backing out of the events—estimated by AIG to be...
Meeting Strategies Worldwide Inc., a Portland, Ore.–based environmental consulting company specializing in the meetings industry, has launched a new Web site designed to help planners select green destinations for their groups. The site, www...
According to the annual “Global Business Travel Forecast and Trends” report, released October 22 by American Express Business Travel, airfares likely will decrease and hotel rates will hold relatively steady—but whatever happens in the air or on...
Recent airfare increases and the economic downturn are having an effect on corporate meetings and conventions. But how much of an effect? The National Business Travel Association surveyed its members recently to get a handle on the changes in the...
Most players in the besieged financial services industry have avoided the kind of public relations disaster experienced by American International Group for its ill-timed incentive program, which eventually resulted in the cancellation of 160...
Just days after insurance behemoth American International Group announced that it was being rescued by an $85 billion loan from the Federal Reserve, top-producing agents were checking into the luxury St. Regis Resort, Monarch Beach (Calif.), for a...
Cisco Systems Inc. has begun renting videoconferencing rooms to the public for one-off meetings, aiming to introduce its high-definition TelePresence conferencing system to small and midsize companies...
