Associations that have plans to bring conventions to Canada after next April are bracing for a proposed federal tax overhaul that would eliminate the rebate that non-Canadian meeting organizers, exhibitors, and attendees can apply for after paying...
Negotiation is a big part of meeting-planning culture. Everything is up for negotiation: hotel rates, meeting-room rates, parking, food and beverage, and more. To perform your job professionally in this field and to serve your religious...
Recent News Stories about the theft of laptop computers on which so-called personally identifiable information about individuals was stored raise the issue of what meeting planners do to protect the information they gather about meeting attendees...
Seven years ago, in a landscape more or less devoid of educational outlets for high-level industry professionals, a small group of corporate meeting executives found each other. Their goal: to start a forum to discuss the issues that they were de...
A former sales executive with the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla., answers your top five questions on how to get a good deal when negotiating with a casino resort...
