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.
A proposal that calls for stricter enforcement of the Americans With Disabilities Act is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, June 17. The new rules would set more stringent requirements for accessibility in public areas...
As it works through contract negotiations with its labor unions, The Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., has seen several meeting cancellations. Most recently, the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers, Washington, D.C., canceled...
The economy and gas prices are affecting hotel demand, but are they affecting room rates yet? For every 10 percent increase in gas prices, there is a correlating 0.5 percent decline in hotel demand, said Bjorn Hanson, a hospitality and leisure...
Bill Peeper, who retired as president of the Orlando/Orange County Convention and Visitors Bureau in 2006 after 25 years of service, has come out of retirement to join Maitland, Fla.-based consulting company, OCG as senior project advisor. OCG...
I could not agree more with Lawrence Sherman (“Houston, We Have a Problem,” March/April 2008). I have now been in CME for 14 months. My biggest challenge is showing the value of CME as a tool to create physician change, implementing Joint...
In a new study by the Incentive Research Foundation, 67 percent of respondents said that procurement departments have a negative effect on their ability to plan and implement incentive programs. In addition, 75 percent of participants reported...
Travelers avoided taking 41 million trips last year—including 12 million business trips—because of their frustration with air travel, according to a new study by the Travel Industry Association. The upshot is a $26.5 billion hit to the economy...
The senate in my home state of Massachusetts has passed legislation that would ban any payments or gifts made by pharmaceutical and medical device companies to healthcare practitioners, their families, medical facilities, and all staff at those...
