Tighter budgets and continuing perception concerns have many companies toning down their incentive programs. Here’s how one planner ditched the extravagance but kept the wow.
The 2010 IMEX exhibition, showcasing incentive travel, meetings, and event suppliers from around the globe, recognized outstanding environmental and community-service efforts during its annual awards ceremony in Frankfurt.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has introduced sustainable-meeting guidelines at all its North American properties and will expand the program globally in 2011.
On July 24, at the World Education Congress in Vancouver, British Columbia, Meeting Professionals International will honor the U.S. Green Building Council with a RISE Award for Organizational Achievement.
Meeting planners and suppliers can finally dig into the industry’s long-awaited sustainable meeting standards. While the new APEX green standards won’t officially launch until September or later, the first training program on how to use them will...