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.
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...
“I can now say it—I am Paco and I am the face of travel!”
That was a Twitter post from Paco Saldaña just before noon eastern time on June 17. Saldaña, director of guest services at the Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, is the winner of the U.S. Trave...
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...
The 2009 IMEX exhibition, showcasing incentive travel, meetings, and event suppliers from around the globe, wrapped up at the end of May in Frankfurt, Germany. Green meeting issues were front and center at the show, with an awards program and IMEX...
The National Business Travel Association, Alexandria, Va., has recently been in talks with two industry associations: Meeting Professionals International and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives...
The meetings and travel industry was generally hailing the new executive compensation rules issued by the U.S. Treasury Department on June 10 as a bullet dodged. The interim final rule, which is now in a 90-day public comment period, requires...
On July 1, the Georgia World Congress Center will be the first convention center to roll out the Worker Identification System, a technology that enables facility management to identify exhibition workers electronically and to ensure that the right...
Exhibit Surveys Inc., a Red Bank, N.J.–based provider of research metrics and tools for exhibitions and trade shows, has partnered with Dunwoody, Ga.–based event consulting firm Constellation Communication Corp. to offer an online planning tool...
