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.
As reported in the Autumn 2010 American Medical Association Continuing Physician Professional Development report released earlier this week, 34 percent of intrastate-accredited CME providers said in a survey taken in 2009 that they were ...
“We see an acceptance … that there are no quick fixes and that the upturn will be a long, hard road.” That was the assessment of Damien Little, director at global consultancy Horwath Hotel, Tourism and Leisure. Little is the founder of the ...
Hotel occupancy in Mexico was up 10 percent through August 2010, according to Smith Travel Research, while the number of international tourist arrivals to Mexico was up 27.5 percent in July 2010 as compared to July 2009. That’s the good news...
I know, stop the presses, right? The Boston Globe is continuing to delve into the relationships between physicians and pharma with a series of stories beginning on today's front page about which docs are being paid what to serve on pharma speakers...
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that U.S. outbound air passenger traffic in June increased 11 percent compared to June 2009, marking the sixth month-over-month increase in outbound air travel...
About 2,900 hotel workers in San Francisco, Honolulu, and Chicago walked off the job this past week, striking against the owners of three Hilton hotels. The strikes are all short-term, ending Tuesday morning, October 19...
As social media continues to weave itself into the conference experience, organizers are searching for ways to join the conversation. Over the last several months, our firm has begun using Twitter to create instant conference news channels for...
While the Americas Meetings and Events Exhibition, which debuts June 21-23, 2011, at the Baltimore Convention Center, announced last spring that it will co-locate with the Professional Convention Management Association’s 2011 Education Conference...
You can read about neurosurgical techniques, but to really learn it, experts say you have to see a brain surgeon in action. While the capacity for live observation in a surgical suite is limited, technology has now advanced to the point where a...
Whew, this has been a long day! And tomorrow will be even longer, seeing as the first session of the National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration starts at 7 a.m. (what??). But so far it's been pretty good, though more uneven than I...
