Two top destinations have put noteworthy twists on their marketing campaigns aimed at meeting executives. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is using ads not only to promote itself, but to promote the value of meetings in general. And...

Starwood Hotels & Resorts and StarCite, the Philadelphia-based meeting technology company, have agreed on a new partnership that will allow meeting planner’s electronic requests for proposal sent from StarCite’s online marketplace to directly...

Mingle360’s handheld networking tool, MingleStick, has been generating some buzz since it debuted last year, but its most significant introduction to the meetings industry may be next month at TS2, the trade show about trade shows, when each...

A proposed ban on gifts to physicians and other healthcare practitioners in Iowa was stripped out of the state’s healthcare reform bill before Gov. Chet Culver signed it into law on May 19...

The board of the directors of the National Business Travel Association voted last week to continue to pursue a merger with the Association of Corporate Travel Executives. However, the issue is at a standstill. ACTE had voted the previous week not...

The meetings industry has gotten the attention of the Obama administration and has a strong supporter in Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, according to a high-ranking official with the U.S. Office of Travel and Tourism Industries, speaking at the...

VMS, an Indianapolis-based biomarketing and meeting services company, has hired a team of industry experts to provide outsourced marketing support to clients in the biotech, life sciences, pharmaceutical, and diagnostics industries...

Physicians are less skeptical of information received at medical exhibitions than they are of marketing from pharmaceutical field sales representatives or medical journal advertisements, according to a new study by the University of Mississippi...

A study measuring the effectiveness of continuing medical education courses produced varying results for researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago...