When planners pay deposits to hotels, meeting and incentive companies, destination management companies, and other meeting suppliers, they expect that their money is being used expressly for their programs. But in fact suppliers are not required...

Photos can showcase your events to the world. Whether you’re a third-party planner showing clients the magnificent programs you bring to life, an exhibition manager promoting upcoming events, or an incentive planner motivating attendees toward fu...

The members of Four Day Weekend, ready to elevate boring executive speeches You have seen it hundreds of times. An executive you have been working with to deliver the perfect speech walks onto the stage only to panic and stare directly at the ...

Meeting planners are generally aware that if music is played during an event, a music license is needed. But beyond that, the details can get a little fuzzy. Who needs to hold the license? Do you need a license for each meeting? How much is it...

At the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2014, Jeff Chase, vice president of sustainability at Freeman, asked some of the event’s big exhibitors what would happen to their exhibits when the show closed. The answer from many, including Audi, wi...

ICOMEX addition expands the ibtm global portfolio into Mexico and Latin America.

A meetings industry panel at the Global Business Travel Association Convention this summer engaged an audience in a discussion of “the attendee journey of the future.&rdquo...