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.
Today’s slow economy is putting constraints on medical associations and societies. To offset possible losses in revenue due to flagging sponsorships, fewer exhibitors, or decreased attendance, planners are looking at ways to rein in costs without...
The Green Meeting Industry Council, an association dedicated to sustainability for meetings and events, has a challenge for the industry: Divert, recycle, or compost a million tons of trash between Earth Day, April 22, and the end of 2009...
Landry & Kling is launching a new service called SeaSite, an online portal that will allow meeting planners to source and plan cruise ship–based meetings...
An interview with Kari Kesler, NBTA board member, co-founder of NBTA’s Groups and Meetings Committee, and former global manager, Honeywell Meeting Solutions, who is leading the effort toward a new certification, the SMMC
Some destinations are fighting back against the negative perception of meetings and incentives, including Minnesota, where Gov. Tim Pawlenty introduced a new meetings marketing campaign; and Spokane, Wash., where industry supporters took to the...
Roger Dow, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, today unveiled the Industry Coalition’s new information and advertising campaign called “Meetings Mean Business” to fight “irresponsible attacks” from the government and the media that...
People interested in the standards being created for greening meetings and events will have an opportunity to comment on them starting the week of March 16, when the first phase of city discussion groups (CDGs) rolls out, according to an...
Longtime CME leader David Lichtenauer passed away on January 19, 2009, at age 70 at his home in Indianapolis. Lichtenauer worked for the Upjohn Pharmaceutical Co. for 30 years, where he created the medical science liaison model that established a...
We must recognize that the potential for bias will always exist. Instead of being obsessed with it, let’s focus our energies on developing effective mechanisms for detecting bias.
