While some Airlines — Delta Air Lines, US Airways/America West, and Southwest Airlines, for example — have eliminated or scaled back their group and meeting services, a number of carriers are adding online tools that enhance or replace their...

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With the help of a cartoon character named “Piney,” the Rapid City (S.D.) Convention and Visitors Bureau is hoping to attract more people to the destination for conventions and meetings — namely, kids...

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Meeting and Travel Industry suppliers are feeling squeezed by what they say are excessive requests for funding by industry foundations, and they have organized a meeting to discuss the issues...

In January, the meeting industry got two new Google Groups discussion forums — MiForum and MeCo — but online meetings chat still isn't up to the volume of the old MIMlist...

Unite Here, the union representing hotel workers, and the hotel multi-employer group in Toronto are at the negotiating table attempting to hammer out a new deal after hotel employee contracts at 23 properties in Toronto expired January 31...

As our “No Vacancy” feature makes clear (page 34), today's hotel seller's market is not like ones in the past, when the gap between supply and demand wasn't huge and it didn't last long. In today's market, the gap between the number of available...

The state of mind attendees are in when they show up at meetings has a lot to do with what they get out of those meetings...

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