The San Antonio Convention & Visitors Bureau, Visit Baltimore, and the Anaheim/Orange County Visitor & Convention Bureau recently announced a joint program called Synchronicities, a three-city marketing partnership. It is designed to offer meetin...
Three days after corporate, association, and third-party meeting planners with expertise in global programs got together for the Beyond Borders Summit at the JW Marriott Essex House in New York, a Malaysia Airlines was shot down over eastern Ukra...
You may have heard Adrian Segar present on the power of peer-created conferences. But it’s something else to see one in action. I had the opportunity to attend a portion of the 2014 edACCESS conference, the one that started Segar on his path...
Cvent, the event management technology company, takes an annual dive into the booking activity on its Cvent Supplier Network, a database of hotels and special event venues, to crown its Top 50 Meeting Destinations in the U.S. This year, Chicago...
Two of the industry’s top lawyers—one who works the hotel side, the other the planner side—staked out their positions on rate protection, attrition, and liquidated damages during this year’s MPI WEC.
Haven’t planned a cruise meeting lately, or ever? We’ve got an overview of trends, a guide to ship categories, and lots of photos to give you a feel for the state of cruising today. Customize your corner of a mega ship, charter a smaller ship and...
I think I got a touch of whiplash when I read these two blog posts back to back: In praise of dull meetings, by Association Meetings International Editor James Lancaster; and You Cannot be Serious! Why Events are the Perfect Adult Playground by E...