A yearlong study by a coalition of convention center managers and convention and visitors bureau executives culminated in the release of a 14-page report on how the two entities can work together most effectively to serve the meetings and...
A new bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would require pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers to disclose the amount of money they give to doctors through payments, gifts, honoraria, travel, and other means...
It's been a relatively quiet hurricane season for the U.S., but busier in the Caribbean and Mexico. Still, though prepared for the worst as storms approached, the resorts in those areas got off very easy...
Some 10,000 culinary workers and bartenders in Las Vegas voted last week to authorize a strike, if necessary, in their effort to resolve their contract dispute with 14 Las Vegas casino resorts...
Meeting Professionals International launched its new Global Marketplace September 11, with the intention of opening up the supplier directory to nonmembers for a nominal annual fee. Within 24 hours, that plan had been changed, after an outcry from...
Companies that bill their meeting expenses to the American Express card and use the StarCite meeting spend management tool heard some noteworthy news last week: The companies are integrating those products, allowing—among other things—for planners...
Differences among the generations were front of mind at the Krisam Group Executive Summit, held September 6 to 9 at the Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach in Cancun. During a session moderated by Cindy Novotny of Master Connection Associates, the...
Randal Savage, corporate director, rooms, at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, White Plains, N.Y., has seen and heard it all. Empty hotel rooms with the lights on, the television blaring, and on some occasions, the shower running...