Every year, thousands of meeting planners, hotels, destinations, and other hospitality industry professionals gather in Las Vegas for IMEX America. For me, this is one of the best shows of the year, and a chance to meet with a multitude of...
Director Roth with actress Lorenza Izzo on 'The Green Inferno' set in Peru (Photo: The Green Inferno) I was reading these five "bloody good lessons on creating intensity” that Fast Company writer Joe Berkowitz divined from the musings of horror f...
Using a clip of a movie during a general session? How about your presenters? If so, you need to pay up.
Hours spent wandering the aisles at an expo, standing on concrete manning a booth, or constantly running the conference gamut as a meeting planner—it all can be a killer for your feet. Here are some suggestions for comfortable conference...
What do you think travel will look like in the near future? That’s what Marriott Rewards Credit Card from Chase asked a nationally representative sample of 1,002 Americans, ages 18-67, who stay in a hotel at least five nights per year for busines...
An ACCESS-designed event aboard the USS Midway in San Diego
San Diego–based ACCESS Destination Services recently earned HPN Global’s Hospitality Partner of the Year honor—the first destination management company ever to receive the award. HPN...
Baby Boomers and Millennials in the working world share a need to travel for business, but how they go about it can vary, according to a study of 521 business travelers called, “Booking Behaviors: Helping Business Travelers Book Smarter.” Conduct...
There has been a lot of talk in recent years about companies mapping their “customer journey”—those key touchpoints throughout a customer’s interaction with a company—to figure out what’s working, and where the gaps between what customers want an...
The 2015 Convention Industry Council Hall of Leaders and Pacesetter Awards Celebration is being revamped from a formal multicourse meal affair to one that instead will offer “artistic” appetizers, cocktails, lounge-style seating, and entertainmen...
If your intuition tells you that an online learning portal that prompts learners with notes and reminders at strategic spots, includes interactive polls and links to resources, and allows learners to take notes and send themselves reminders would...
