Safety & Security

As International Congress & Convention Association CEO Martin Sirk says, “I’ve frequently stated during presentations that there is no such place as a safe destination, but that doesn’t mean that association meeting planners...

When the Global Business Travel Association Foundation surveyed travel managers, security officers, and human resources managers about how their organizations keep business travelers safe, more than eight in 10 reported having a travel risk...

A new report from the Incentive Research Foundation draws on previous and upcoming research to identify "10 Trends for Merchandise and Gift Card Programs in 2015."...

Screen shot from the "Intimidation game," a recent episode on NCB's "Law and Order: SVU" There has been a lot of talk lately about sexual harassment at video game-related conferences. (Google Gamergate for more than you'd ever want to know on th...

The Society of Government Meeting Professionals has issued a warning to its members to help them avoid falling victim to an all-too-common meetings industry scam: hotel room block poaching. SGMP learned that a company not affiliated with the orga...

Funny how a one-hour session can completely upend your perception of what’s really important. Case in point: A hybrid session I attended virtually last week put on by the Professional Convention Management Association’s Convening Leaders, which w...

You may not know it, but hacks and cyber attacks on meetings and events should be on the list of things that keep you up at night. Here’s why.

Terrorism, natural disasters, political crises… Are there bigger risks today for business events? What’s happened during the past weeks in Europe and Africa calls for debating about managing risks and placing this topic at the top of...

News about the Ebola virus having infected a second healthcare worker who tended to the first Ebola victim Dallas' Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital—and that she flew on a commercial flight the day before she checked into the hospital with sympt...

Ebola. The very word chills me to the bone. Thousands have already been killed by the disease, and it shows no signs of stopping any time soon, despite the best efforts of the Centers for Disease Control, Médecins Sans Frontières, the World Healt...