The meetings and incentives business is looking up down under, as the Asia-Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo, which opened February 15 at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, Australia, reported an impressive 32...

International visitors to the U.S. increased about 10 percent last year compared to 2009, but for the 30 members of the U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, which serves as an advisory body to the Secretary of Commerce, changes in U.S. visa...

The EventCamp conferences have covered a lot of ground since the group’s first meeting in New York in February 2010. But great success breeds greater expectations. After last weekend’s second EventCamp National Conference in Chicago, industry...

The Alliance for Continuing Medical Education has launched what many at the organization’s 36th Annual Conference in San Francisco last month described as an ambitious new vision, mission, and strategic plan designed to broaden the organization’s...

Is it just me, or was there a really incredible energy around this year's Alliance for Continuing Medical Education conference? I don't remember ever leaving the conference feeling so hopeful about the future of the CME enterprise, or about the...

Immediate past president Jann Balmer was a champion throughout the meeting for the Alliance's new strategic plan, and on Saturday morning she answered some of the questions people already have been asking, and encouraged all to keep the questions...

Among the hot topics in CME today -- from REMS to perceptions of bias to Maintenance of Certification Part IV -- the one that left me feeling a bit queasy from the final Alliance for CME plenary session Saturday morning was a presentation on...

I know, it seems weird to get so excited about checklists, but I'm such a fan of Atul Gawande that I had to get a copy of his book The Checklist Manifesto as soon as it came out. So when I saw there was a session at the Alliance for CME conference...