The industry can be proud to have developed a large diversity of CSR activities for all destination segments: domestic, regional, and long-haul. In developing countries, activities aim to fight poverty, help children, increase education, and fight...
SAP CEO Bill McDermott SAP CEO Bill McDermott likes to share his personal stories about the power of meetings to solidify and spread corporate values, and even turn a company around. He beamed his message into IMEX America last fall, and now he’s...
The impact of your conference education sessions is less about what happens on site and more about what happens on the attendee’s job after the session. Your conference education needs to be transformational, not just informational. It should tra...
I had no sooner written up this recap of a discussion on the Meetings Community (MeCo) listserv about how planners deal with special dietary requests than a colleague sent me a press release on the Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park’s new kosher k...
Once upon a time, meeting attendees had pretty minimal meal choices—generally chicken or beef, and if they didn’t like it, they ate around it or got their meals outside of the ballroom. But the plates were cleared long ago on those simple meal ch...
Meeting Professionals International has partnered with Destination Marketing Association International to incorporate DMAI’s Destination Finder into its Web site, MPIweb.org. The free tool, which is powered by DMAI’s empowerMINT.com, provides des...
One of the many reasons I love the good folks at the Meetings Community (aka MeCo) listserv is the way they freely share information and resources. Here are a couple of online space calculators they shared recently that can help you figure out wh...
Everyone wants to wow attendees with a cool reception or other special event at their conference, but what do people really want? Interactivity, cocktails, and food top the list, according to this cool infographic from Kapow Events. It also cover...
We’re well into the new year, and with so much to be grateful for, I thought I would pass along some suggestions for “random acts of kindness” I’ve seen that would be wonderful for more companies and meeting planners to do...
