VISIT FLORIDA, the state's official tourism marketing company, is stepping up its marketing campaign to help dispel misperceptions about next summer's hurricane season. A key element of the program is its Weather Warranty, which targets meeting...
DISCLOSURE OF THE way in which agents and brokers are compensated has become a significant issue as state regulators and industry insiders deal with the fallout of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's investigation into insurance industry...
Training in U.S. companies is holding steady, and high-tech training methods are on the rise, according to the American Society for Training & Development's 2004 State of the Industry Report. The annual per-person budget for employee training...
Many of us, at our jobs, before we ever begin planning a meeting, sit down and develop the strategic plan. What is the objective of this program? Who is our audience? Why are we doing it? What do we want to accomplish...
The goal is straightforward: The meeting industry needs to communicate via computer. To that end, APEX — the Convention Industry Council's project to develop industrywide accepted practices — has a technology component: The APEX Technology...
WE'VE ALL BEEN IN STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSIONS WHERE WE spend seemingly endless hours fishboning and analyzing — without ever developing action steps or achieving results. But it doesn't have to be that way...
CELEBRATING A RECORD attendance of more than 2,700 at the Professional Education Conference in San Diego in January, Meeting Professionals International announced a position paper from its Global Corporate Circle of Excellence, telling members...
SNOWY WEATHER did not deter a record 37 planners and 18 hospitality partners from attending ICPA's Northeast winter meeting January 6 to 8 at the Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel in Boston. Gleaming from a head-to-toe renovation, the hotel's grand...
Strategic planning is a disciplined effort to make fundamental decisions and take actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it. (For information on ICPA's strategic initiatives, see “Message from the...