May 1, 2008
Features
More CFOs Involved With Meetings
For years, meeting professionals have promoted how important it is to get on the radar screens of C-level executives. The good news is that more and more CFOs, like Concur’s John Adair, now see meeting spend as an area that is ready for expense management....
Private Parties in Public Spaces
When Minneapolis DMC metroConnections decided on a M*A*S*H-themed reception, complete with cast lookalikes, tents even a helicopter Harriet Island in...
How to Capture Small-Meetings Spend
The economy may be tanking, but the prolonged hotel seller's market persists. Corporations are in budget-cutting mode, and the pressure is on meeting-planning...
Keynotes
Airlines in Crisis
Kevin Mitchell, chairman of the Business Travel Coalition, weighs in on the troubled airline industry....
Pharma Planning By the Numbers
It's no secret that the job of the meeting planner has changed significantly in recent years. Perhaps none more so than the pharmaceutical planner, who...
Pack It In
Pack light or pay more. That's the message for your attendees starting this month when five U.S. airlines begin charging extra for checking a second piece...
Meeting Ed Online
The University of Nevada Las Vegas is offering live, college-level classes online featuring UNLV faculty and leading industry experts. Each one-hour webinar...
Strategic Reading
Any planner who has ever been asked to justify the expense of holding a meeting knows how challenging it can be to gather ROI metrics. Here are two books...
Raising the Bar
What would your meeting attendees say if you ditched the hotel ballroom in favor a bar? That's just what Skyy Spirits did at the company's annual sales...
Pillow Fight
The Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort has been ordered to pay a company more than $200,000 in damages and fees as a result of a corporate event that went...
Introducing Virtualis
If you've ever looked for an excuse to try out the 3-D online environment called Second Life, here's a good one: Virtualis, an eye-popping event island...
Breakouts
Wellness Incentives Take Center Stage
As more organizations get serious about incentivizing employee behaviors, it was only a matter of time before employee wellness became a target. Because...
Prevent intellectual property theft
If you are planning what you regard as a unique event, are the details of its execution confidential? ...
7 Tips to Boost Sponsorship Revenues
Corporate golf event planners might easily follow the standard wisdom when it comes to finding sponsors. But I'm going to warn you against what everybody...
Save on City Meetings
Checklists Entertainment 1. Use Universities Cities such as Boston are teeming with universities. Contact the schools' music departments to inquire about...
Gaming Venues
Rio Mar Beach Resort & Spa Rio Grande, Puerto Rico The News: The resort's 7,000-square-foot casino reopened after a $5 million expansion. Specs: 600 guest...
The South-Central States
There may be a hotel seller's market nationwide, but meetings are still being courted in the South-Central states, where billions of dollars are being...
The Caribbean
Pointing to tourism growth rates around 1 percent, compared to world tourism expansion of 7 percent, Alec Sanguinetti, director general and CEO of the...
Check In
Let Green Start With You
If you have ever thought that by going green, you won't really make a difference, think again. I recently led a roundtable discussion on green meetings...
Post-Con
Tyra Hilliard
Tyra Hilliard, Esq., CMP, CMI legal columnist focused on legal, risk management, and ethical issues) If you could be anywhere in the world, where would...
Zooming into the Future
The International Association of Conference Centers experienced a series of firsts at its recent annual meeting, held at the Zermatt Resort & Spa in Midway,...
MGM Grand
By the time you read this, the slot machines will be clanging, roulette wheels will be spinning, card dealers will be dealing, and restaurants will be...
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