Among the major new education initiatives Meeting Professionals International President and CEO Paul Van Deventer announced at the start of MPI’s World Education Congress in San Francisco August 2 is MPI Academy, meant to include all of the...
A recent study has calculated an answer to that question. Funded by the International SOS Foundation and conducted by research and consulting firm Prevent, the report, “Return on Prevention: Benefit/Cost Analysis of Prevention Measures for Busine...
According to a survey of 7,800 Millennials conducted by Deloitte, young executives are looking for a sense of purpose beyond their paychecks. They need a close connection to the “why” of what they do at work...
According to a new study, an average of one out of every three group room nights in the U.S. is booked outside of the official room block, so your room-block history only tells a partial story about your event’s value. It’s time for a...
Results of an exclusive survey reveal what what medical meeting planners value in sites, venues, and destinations, what their meetings and trade show budgets look like, the number and size of the meetings they plan, and more.
If there’s a hot topic for hotel and ground transportation companies today, it’s how to embrace—or repel—the “sharing economy,” that is, Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, and others. Business travelers have shown that they are clearly in the “embrace” camp, so...
