Meetings, conventions, exhibitions, and incentive travel generated $122.3 billion in direct spending in the United States last year, according to the Convention Industry Council's Economic Impact Study, released in September. Association-sponsored...
Not long ago, ethics training was the exception rather than the rule in corporate America. Now, the majority of companies — 69 percent compared to just 37 percent in 1994, according to the Ethics Resource Center, Washington, D.C. — delivers this...
A new must-read has rolled off the presses at Meeting Professionals International. The third position paper from its Global Corporate Circle of Excellence tackles planner-supplier relationships in a strategic meeting management environment — that...
The good news: Meeting planners and facilitators both want the same thing: the success of a client's meeting. The not-so-good news: Most planners don't know how to work with facilitators or truly understand how they can help them to do their jobs...
