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...

KiKi L’Italien, Amplified Growth, and Scott Oser, Scott Oser Associates, outside their session room at ASAEMeeting planners tend to be busy people. Make that very busy—but are you busier than you need to be? If so, the American Societ...

Heads up! Association planners should keep their eyes—and their contracts—on potentially disruptive developments that could put their meetings' viability at risk. Photo: Thinkstock by Getty ImagesWith associations typicall...

The process of collecting attendee names, hotels, and flight arrival data and passing that along to your ground transportation provider to schedule pickups seems straightforward. But if you’ve done it even once, you know it rarely is...