“Any time that pendulum starts shifting [from buyer's to seller's market], it takes a little while for everybody to figure the market out,” says Anetha Grant, senior vice president of sales at the Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau...
A frank and tip-filled session on contingency planning in these uncertain times sparked a lot of conversation at Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Northeast Chapter meeting, August 20 to 22 at the Hotel Viking, Newport, R.I. The four...
Although the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, passed by Congress in the wake of the Enron and Worldcom scandals, are applicable only to the nearly 12,000 companies that file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, some...
Planners of social, military, education, religious, and fraternal meetings all invariably have one thing in common: They need to get a lot of bang for the buck when it comes to meeting expenditures. That's why developing a good request for...
A new position paper from Meeting Professionals International's Global Corporate Circle of Excellence explores the trend in corporate America to merge meeting and travel departments. “360 Degrees of Teamwork: How Meetings and Travel Professionals...
According to a soon-to-be-released report that was conducted by Purdue University, meeting planners, on the whole, are not prepared to respond to disasters of any kind — from a strike, to a roof collapse, to a shooting — much less a flu pandemic...
