This year, more than 3,700 meeting professionals will gather in Montréal, Canada, for Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference à la Montréal. The annual event will convene July 28-31, offering 125 educational sessions; MPI...
To better serve its growing clientele in Las Vegas, independent meeting planning company Experient is opening an operations center in the convention boomtown...
Learn from the experts how to implement environmentally conscious meetings policies that reduce unnecessary waste without breaking the budget...
If you didn’t make it to every session you wanted to at the Professional Convention Management Association annual meeting in January—or you didn’t make it to the meeting at all—the education now has a home online. PCMA has a new Web portal called...
Is new hotel construction finally slowing the seller’s market,? And if it is, what will it mean when booking your meetings? Is it possible that hotels aren’t making any more money than they did in 2000? Find answers to those questions and more at...
Faced with a backlog of passport applications and complaints from frustrated travelers who have waited up to three months to get their new passports, the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security have temporarily suspended new...
The National Business Travel Association’s annual International Convention and Exposition will take place July 22-25 at the Boston Convention and Exposition Center. The event gives business travel management professionals an opportunity to network...
Mary Power, CAE, president of the Convention Industry Council, announced last week that she was stepping down from her post and “doing something I haven’t done in seven years: I’m taking a vacation.” Management Options Inc., the Washington, D.C...