After a particularly devastating hurricane season in 2004, Visit Florida, the state's tourism marketing arm, came up with a reassuring idea: free meeting insurance for groups booking the state in August, September, or October, when the storms are...
The Department of Homeland Security plans to relax passport requirements for children who are citizens of the United States and Canada traveling into the U.S. via land and sea...
The annual RCMA Member Survey gives a snapshot of religious meetings conducted by RCMA's meeting planners. The 2006 picture shows that RCMA members are a vigorous, growing force in the meetings industry as they build strong relationships with the...
J. Robert Fiol — Bob, if you please — grew up in India in a family of ministers. His parents were missionaries, and his two older brothers are ministers. “We say it's the family business,” he says...
In August 2005, the Catholic church held what was possibly the world's largest meeting: World Youth Day, a 10-day meeting in Cologne, Germany. In attendance were 630,000 “pilgrims,” along with tens of thousands of volunteer workers, suppliers...
Sixty years ago, Jane Marilley turned a passion for flying into what has become one of the oldest meeting planning companies in the country — Courtesy Associates...