What medical and pharmaceutical/bioscience/medical device meeting planners and continuing medical education professionals need to know to plan meetings and CME activities for healthcare professionals.
CME funding is decreasing; revenue from exhibits is decreasing even more. General, unrestricted support of an organization no longer exists for most medical societies, and there is more competition for sponsorship dollars from state organizations...
It took five years and more than $1.5 billion to build the Burj Dubai which, at 2,717 feet, becomes the world’s tallest tower. And its long-awaited opening earlier this month came with a surprise—the renaming of the tower as the Burj Khalifa, in...
The hospitality industry is reaching out to help the people of Haiti in the wake of the 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck 10 miles outside of Port-au-Prince on January 12.
John Maginley, chairman, Council of Ministers and Commissioners, Carib...
Officials at the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, which runs Chicago’s McCormick Place, are spearheading an effort to introduce a bill in the Illinois General Assembly to reform labor rules and contractor practices at the convention...
A recent survey of incentive industry professionals shows a possible disconnect in the importance placed on technology: Most respondents say that technology is critical when choosing partner companies, but at the same time, remarkably few of those...
Meeting Professionals International brings its MeetDifferent conference to Cancun, Mexico, February 20–23, and as its title promises, organizers are trying out an array of educational formats in order to expose attendees to new ideas and enrich...
As the economic crash unfolded last year, industry associations and various think tanks unleashed a torrent of statistics to track the downturn’s impact on meetings and events...
A troubled economy, H1N1, strategic meetings management—even murder: Here's a last look at our top stories of 2009, as determined by the number of page views each of them logged on our MeetingNet Web site:
1. The CMI 25. Our 2009 list of the in...
