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.
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...
Digital media are becoming an increasingly important part of the marketing mix for corporate and exhibition management professionals, according to a report issued last week by the Center for Exhibition Industry Research and the experience...
Meetings and conventions were a bright spot for many associations over the past year, but now almost two out of three association executives are bracing for declining revenues—including meeting revenues—in the coming months, according to a survey...
Betsy Myers, chief operating officer and senior advisor for the Obama for America campaign, will take the stage on July 10 to accept Meeting Professionals International’s first RISE Award on behalf of her organization...
