Planners got conservative with bookings during the recession, but the recovery is here, and “everyone is blowing through their room blocks,” said Mike Dominguez, senior vice president, corporate hotel sales, MGM Resorts International...

Chris Lee, DMCPThe Beginning Sometime during the 1960s, as a response to meeting and convention planners’ desire for custom group leisure activities during their programs, a new business was born. Referred to as “ground operators,” they were mo...

It’s always refreshing to listen to a keynote speaker who’s a straight shooter—maybe even more so these days, surrounded as we all are by spin and buzzwords. Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré (Ret.), therefore, was just what the doctor ordered, taking the s...

Meeting planners know that one of the more common complaints on education session evaluation forms is that a session “wasn’t what I expected.” It’s highly unlikely that any of the attendees at the Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Edu...

More than 200 attendees, including 74 planners, have arrived at The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans, for the 2014 Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Education Forum. They’re enjoying a warm (well, hot) welcome from a resilient, fascinating, uniq...

Cheryl Trinidad likes to try new things with meetings. “No risk, no reward,” says Trinidad, who has a way of making the cliché sound fresh and fun. Which could be because we’re catching her at what she considers the fun part of the process. LPL ...

Budapest offers groups "authentic Europe at excellent value."

If you think you don't have time in your meeting agenda for a genuinely meaningful community service experience, consider what CSR expert Alan Ranzer has to say. Then share your thoughts by posting a comment below the article.

Rolling out new initiatives is an important investment for any organization.  Get it right and your company can boost profitability. Get it wrong and you’ll be hung out to dry at the next stakeholders meeting. Finding the right professional spea...

In the field of destination management companies, there are independent players, national networks, and global consortia. Now there’s nimble new player on the scene. MICEport DMC is a Philadelphia-based partnership of boutique DMCs in select dest...