Hoteliers posted strong gains in 2006 as profits rose 13.3 percent, on average, for the year, according to PKF Consulting’s 2007 Trends in the Hotel Industry survey. But profits in 2006 were still about 21 percent lower than in 2000, according to...

Springtime, a one-day trade show and conference for the association community, will be held June 14 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C., sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives and the Center for Association...

The Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau introduced an online tool that helps meeting planners book small meetings in the city...

Instituting a strategic meeting management program in the U.S. is one thing; expanding it globally is quite another. Corporate travel and meeting buyers gathered May 7 to discuss challenges to multinational SMMPs at a panel discussion during the...

StarCite is helping planners to automate and streamline going green. The Philadelphia-based provider of meeting-management solutions has partnered with Meeting Strategies Worldwide Inc., a Portland, Ore.–based conference management, consulting...

In a move to expand its European presence, Philadelphia-based StarCite has acquired Travent Limited, EMEA, a U.K.-based distributor of its MeetingView meeting-management technology. The acquisition marks a significant step for StarCite in its...

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CME professionals' reactions to the Senate Finance Committee report on medical education run the gamut, from those who agree that pharmaceutical company funding results in biased programming to those who think the committee is wasting its time and...