The National Business Travel Association’s annual International Convention and Exposition will take place July 22-25 at the Boston Convention and Exposition Center. The event gives business travel management professionals an opportunity to network...
Mary Power, CAE, president of the Convention Industry Council, announced last week that she was stepping down from her post and “doing something I haven’t done in seven years: I’m taking a vacation.” Management Options Inc., the Washington, D.C...
Hoteliers posted strong gains in 2006 as profits rose 13.3 percent, on average, for the year, according to PKF Consulting’s 2007 Trends in the Hotel Industry survey. But profits in 2006 were still about 21 percent lower than in 2000, according to...
Instituting a strategic meeting management program in the U.S. is one thing; expanding it globally is quite another. Corporate travel and meeting buyers gathered May 7 to discuss challenges to multinational SMMPs at a panel discussion during the...
StarCite is helping planners to automate and streamline going green. The Philadelphia-based provider of meeting-management solutions has partnered with Meeting Strategies Worldwide Inc., a Portland, Ore.–based conference management, consulting...
In a move to expand its European presence, Philadelphia-based StarCite has acquired Travent Limited, EMEA, a U.K.-based distributor of its MeetingView meeting-management technology. The acquisition marks a significant step for StarCite in its...
Five years after it became law, the Sarbanes-Oxley bill has sparked a number of shifts in the way meetings are managed and procured, said Joshua Grimes, Esq., Grimes Law Offices, Philadelphia, speaking at the Third Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting...