For John Hancock Financial Services, sponsoring a charity cycling event offers plenty of payoffs, from community goodwill to bonding with producers and clients to boosting the wellness of its own people.
Hundreds of industry professionals have helped create the soon-to-be released Green Meetings and Events Standards developed by the Convention Industry Council Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX) and ASTM International.
The sight of the Opryland Hotel underwater in May marked the beginning of an extreme weather season, highlighting for me the vulnerability of the meetings economy to effects of climate change...
Most meeting activities aimed at satisfying a commitment to corporate social responsibility are meaningful to meeting professionals and to a small minority of participants, but mostly irrelevant to the social, economic, and environmental goals...
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.