The Society of Incentive & Travel Executives has made several efforts to clear up misconceptions around incentive travel, which it says have been fostered by the media since AIG’s controversial meetings this fall in the wake of a government...

Financial & Insurance Conference planners has released a positioning statement to members responding to recent press coverage of excessive spending on meetings by some financial services and insurance companies...

Gaylord Entertainment has canceled its plans to develop a $1 billion resort and convention hotel in the bayfront area of Chula Vista, Calif., just south of San Diego. The company cites “prolonged approval processes, complicated regulatory and...

The Association for Green Meetings & Events, which launched last spring and in July reported having 236 paying members and 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, has yet to provide most of its promised member benefits and has failed to incorporate under...

Shell-shocked by the dire economy and concerned that meetings in the financial sector have become politically incorrect, the nearly 600 attendees at Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Annual Conference in Cancun last week exemplified...

The Convention Industry Council’s Accepted Practices Exchange program, also known as APEX, recently received a Web makeover and added two new commissioners to its roster. On the human side of the APEX update are Teri Tonioli, CMP, a 20-plus-year...

A group of Marriott’s top corporate clients gathered last week to hear the hotel company’s president and COO, along with other executives, talk about the state of the company—and tackle some tough questions...

The Convention Industry Council recently announced the dates and locations for its summer and winter 2010 Certified Meeting Professional examinations. The winter exam is scheduled for January 9, 2010. One of the 2010 winter exam sites will be in...

GuideStar Research’s MeetingMetrics has taken home the 2008 technology prize from EIBTM, the Barcelona, Spain-based meetings and incentives exhibition. The show’s annual WorldWide Technology Watch competition, chaired by Corbin Ball, CMP, CSP...

“It’s not the budget, it’s the perception.” ...