The international chain Accor, which has 4,000 hotels in 90 countries, has worked with an international community development organization that focuses on children, called Plan, since 2003. Started in France and England, the hotel program was set...
The Religious Conference Management Association, for the third year in a row, has donated $100,000 to the United Nations' World Food Programme to fight hunger among children...
When Barbara Dunlavey became Executive Director at the Biomedical Engineering Society two years ago, there was no meeting budget or system to track expenses, let alone a strategy to reduce costs. That would soon change. Dunlavey developed a...
In a move to expand its European presence, Philadelphia-based StarCite announced in May that it had acquired Travent Limited, EMEA, a U.K.-based distributor of its MeetingView enterprise meeting-management technology. The acquisition marks a...
On any given day, up to 70 percent of all the stories in newspapers across the United States were either released or pitched by public relations firms, publicists, and corporate communications firms. In the case of business news — often released...
The Society of Incentive & Travel Executives and Marriott Individual Incentives have announced a new scholarship program in honor of David Riddell, Marriott International’s vice president of incentive and gift card marketing, who died last...
After public criticism from conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly about its sponsorship of a convention of left-wing bloggers, JetBlue Airways relented—sort of...