Planners are always on the lookout for fresh ideas. You could be reading this right now while taking a break from trying to figure out how, at long last, to orchestrate your awards dinner so it doesn’t bore the pants off half the audience.
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Image from Congrats! You Have an All-male PanelThe list of all-male panels on the Congrats! You Have an All-male Panel Tumblr is dishearteningly long, and the humiliation of being featured on it is only compounded by each being stamped with a thu...
“We believe 2015 is shaping up to be a great year for the meetings industry," says Ted Davis, chief sales and marketing officer for Benchmark Resorts & Hotels, a division of Benchmark Hospitality International. Along with strong...
From a never-been-done-before concert outside Washington, D.C.’s Carnegie Library to a transportation puzzle that required 470 buses, the Association of Destination Management Executives International honored outstanding creativity and innovation...
“Your search engine should be a human,” says Diane Goodman, CMP, president, Goodman Speakers Bureau. “Having an in-depth discussion about your needs for a professional speaker is an essential first step for anyone planning a...
The industry can be proud to have developed a large diversity of CSR activities for all destination segments: domestic, regional, and long-haul. In developing countries, activities aim to fight poverty, help children, increase education, and fight...
We’re well into the new year, and with so much to be grateful for, I thought I would pass along some suggestions for “random acts of kindness” I’ve seen that would be wonderful for more companies and meeting planners to do...
Cruise Lines International Association sees seven trends ahead for an industry that continues to grow globally:
1. Passengers Come BackCruise travelers intend to continue to set sail: 62 percent are return cruisers. Overall, CLIA member ocean pa...
Ruth Levine, founder of SpeakInc. Speakers bureau, released her list of the most popular female speakers for 2014 in July 2013. That prompted us to get in touch and ask her more about gender and the corporate speaker circuit.
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