Marriott International has announced that it will acquire rival hotel giant Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in a $12.2 billion deal expected to be completed by mid-2016. The new Marriott will be the world’s largest hotel company, with 5,570 p...

I would hazard a guess that most people in the meetings and events industry have either asked or been asked to provide their services "on spec," with the thought that somewhere down the road, it would lead to a paying gig. Whether it's destinatio...

Car-hailing service Uber has just taken its new UberEvents service nationwide, allowing event hosts to prepay for Uber rides for their guests...

The Red Book includes pharmaceutical and medical meetings regulations for more than 100 countries. has entered into an agreement to acquire The Red Book for Medical Meetings, a global medical meetings guide to information on pharmaceutical and co...

Elizabeth Pinkham of SalesforceDreamforce, the legendary Salesforce user conference, drew more than 172,000 registered participants to its headquarters city in September (plus some 11 million online viewers). “We took over San Francisco, includin...

For the past eight years, the Incentive Research Foundation has surveyed incentive industry professionals on a regular basis to assess their outlook on incentives in the near term and to identify longer-term trends. The IRF’s Fall Pulse...

At the American Society of Association Executives Annual Conference and Exhibition, held in August in Detroit, I went to a great learning lab session about disruptive developments that could affect future meetings. Key among the disrupters discus...

The Federal Communications Commission plans a $718,000 fine against electrical contracting company M.C. Dean for blocking consumers’ Wi-Fi connections at the Baltimore Convention Center. The same day it announced this action, November 2, the...