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.
Hotel rates will continue to decline while airfares will increase slightly in 2010. That was the projection from American Express’ 2010 Global Business Travel Forecast, which was released on September 30...
It's not like it's anything new, but for some reason this made the front page of the Boston Globe yesterday: 60 doctors took speaker fees from drug giant ...
Reacting to the outcry over the firing of 98 housekeepers at three Boston-area Hyatt hotels, Hyatt Hotels Corp. announced September 25 that it has found full-time jobs in the Boston market for the displaced workers...
Floyd Pennington thinks so. Read his thoughts on what a nationally accepted standard for the implementation of performance improvement CME initiatives could look like.
A company set up to reward households for recycling might hold the key to one of the meetings industry’s most serious environmental challenges. Meetings and events generate the second-highest volume of waste of any industry. Only construction...
The firing of 98 housekeepers at three Boston-area Hyatt hotels has created a storm of protest. Hotel workers, supporters, and politicians have rallied outside Hyatt properties in Boston and Chicago, at least one group canceled its meeting, and...
Meeting management software provider StarCite has decided to stop charging hotels and conference centers the per-room-night fees it had been receiving from them for group bookings generated via StarCite’s supplier database and RFP engine...
Looks like MECCs are taking another hit--check out this press release: GSK limits medical education funding to independent programs with highest impact on patient care. From the PR: ...
