While talk of a certification program developed specifically for medical meeting planners has been circulating for years, the Professional Meeting Planners Network, Durham, N.C., decided in October to do more than talk. It is in the beginning...
If you're in meeting planning for the money, it helps to be a guy … with lots of experience … working for a corporation. You probably could have guessed that without reading the results of Meeting Professionals International's new salary survey...
THE PRESS RELEASE came across my desk attached to a perky note from a PR person. “Thought this would be of great interest to your readers!” she enthused. The announcement: “VRRROOOM! MEETING PLANNERS GET REVVED UP OVER [X HOTEL'S] JAGUAR GIVEAWAY...
First, a big thank-you to all readers who participated in our 2005 salary survey, conducted earlier this year via an online questionnaire. We know readers are constantly bombarded with requests, and we appreciate the time and attention many of you...
DRIP, DRIP, DRIP. Hear that? That's the sound of your destination management company's profit line draining away. The business of DMCs (providing the local staff and expertise to make your transfers, tours, dine-arounds, and off-site parties a...
CELEBRATING A RECORD ATTENDANCE of more than 2,700 at the Professional Education Conference in San Diego in January, Meeting Professionals International had a lot to crow about, having achieved some major accomplishments over the past 12 months...