Last October, the Federal Communications Commission fined Marriott International $600,000 for intentionally jamming some of its customers’ Wi-Fi connections in the meeting space at Gaylord Opryland Hotel & Convention Center in Nashville. Marr...
Terrorism, natural disasters, political crises… Are there bigger risks today for business events? What’s happened during the past weeks in Europe and Africa calls for debating about managing risks and placing this topic at the top of...
Vancouver-based QuickMobile, a leading provider of mobile event apps, has been in overdrive. Within the last month the company has brought on a new CEO, Craig Brennan, a high-tech industry veteran; rolled out a mobile app certificate program; and...
Cvent Inc., McLean, Va., is set to become an even more dominant player in the group hotel sourcing marketplace with the acquisition of Santa Barbara, Calif.–based Elite Meetings International.
Cvent, which provides planners with technology for...
MeetingMetrics, a developer and provider of online and mobile measurement products, has introduced Ion, a tool that allows MeetingMetrics’ clients to deliver surveys from within their event’s mobile app to identify and track an...
The role of the meeting planner used to be straightforward: identify a date, find a location, create an agenda, plan the logistics. But the world has changed, and meeting attendees have a different set of expectations than they did in the past...
Many conference organizers provide justification toolkits to help registrants gain the boss’s approval to attend. These often include back-of-the-envelope calculations on expenses, as well as anticipated professional development and business...