Recent airfare increases and the economic downturn are having an effect on corporate meetings and conventions. But how much of an effect? The National Business Travel Association surveyed its members recently to get a handle on the changes in the...

Most players in the besieged financial services industry have avoided the kind of public relations disaster experienced by American International Group for its ill-timed incentive program, which eventually resulted in the cancellation of 160...

Just days after insurance behemoth American International Group announced that it was being rescued by an $85 billion loan from the Federal Reserve, top-producing agents were checking into the luxury St. Regis Resort, Monarch Beach (Calif.), for a...

Healthcare exhibitors are concerned, but not panicked, about the effect the economy will have on meetings next year, says Eric Allen, executive vice president of the Healthcare Convention and Exhibitors Association...

One silver lining to the dark economic cloud is that the growing credit crisis and resulting travel cutbacks at many companies is likely to end the upward creep in airline fares, says Kevin Mitchell, chairman of the Business Travel Coalition, a...

“It’s chaos right now. Every day is a new adventure. There’s nothing in the handbook about weathering an economic downtown, in an election year, with a war on. It’s just a very different time,” says Maura Gast, executive director at the Irving ...