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...

In this buyer's market, hoteliers are willing to negotiate just about anything—but don’t expect it to last.

Create a risk-free international ground transportation plan.

And why you need it — especially overseas

Aiming for a more recognizable brand and a sharper focus for their company, Amy Spatrisano and Nancy Wilson, co-founders of Meeting Strategies Worldwide, have renamed the company MeetGreen. The women have been in the vanguard of planning greener...

These days, speakers bureaus are getting lots of requests for presenters on the cheap. But industry veteran Diane Goodman of Goodman Speakers Bureau suggests that planners should focus instead on trying to get more for their money when working...

Maarten Vanneste founder of the Meeting Support Institute, talks about his book Meeting Architecture, a Manifesto and his vision for a new kind of meeting professional.

The timing couldn’t be better for the release of the new white paper, entitled “Engagement,” from the Site (formerly the Society of Incentive and Travel Executives) International Foundation. With stories of layoffs and demotivated workers making...