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.
Airlines, in a seemingly never-ending bid to supplement their revenues, are adding yet again to an already dizzying array of fees. This summer, both U.S. Airways and United Airlines will charge passengers a $5 service fee if they choose to check...
The Professional Convention Management Association has teamed up with Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide to offer a program that allows PCMA members to use Starwood Preferred Planner and Starwood Preferred Guest award points, or Starpoints...
Two top destinations have put noteworthy twists on their marketing campaigns aimed at meeting executives. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is using ads not only to promote itself, but to promote the value of meetings in general. And...
Starwood Hotels & Resorts and StarCite, the Philadelphia-based meeting technology company, have agreed on a new partnership that will allow meeting planner’s electronic requests for proposal sent from StarCite’s online marketplace to directly...
Mingle360’s handheld networking tool, MingleStick, has been generating some buzz since it debuted last year, but its most significant introduction to the meetings industry may be next month at TS2, the trade show about trade shows, when each...
A proposed ban on gifts to physicians and other healthcare practitioners in Iowa was stripped out of the state’s healthcare reform bill before Gov. Chet Culver signed it into law on May 19...
The board of the directors of the National Business Travel Association voted last week to continue to pursue a merger with the Association of Corporate Travel Executives. However, the issue is at a standstill. ACTE had voted the previous week not...
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...
