Meet CJ, one of the St. Bernard Rescue Foundation rescue dogs currently looking for a home in Texas.As much as I love the puppy-cuddling stations Meeting Professionals International has been including in its World Education Congresses in recent y...
Image: tomcensani, FlickrLocally sourced food and beverage at events is all the rage, but that's usually referring to ingredients, not the dishes as a whole. Most regions have their own, sometimes quirky food specialties that could be a highlight...
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...
A meeting planner’s site inspection is a hotel’s chance to show off its service, staff, facilities, responsiveness—or, as in our collection of stories here, a chance for a property to shoot itself in the foot. Have you experienced any of these...
"Frankly, I think the site visit is the most important part of the game plan for a successful program," says one longtime corporate meeting professional. In fact, it can make or break a hotel's prospects for booking a meeting, as we found out...
A meeting may be one hour, one day, one weekend, or an entire week—but each is a forum for leading change. No company executive ever says, “Let’s have a meeting to remain status quo.”
Meetings of the future will do five things in a new way:
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Take a deep breath and you can smell it in the air—it’s incentive season! Travel incentives are meant to give qualifiers an experience like no other. Planners work tirelessly to introduce their groups to the sights, smells, sounds...
