Financial/Insurance Meetings

Meeting and travel planners have a lot of questions about the mosquito-borne Zika virus, and unfortunately some of those questions are unanswerable right now. For example, despite a dramatic increase in the cases of babies born with microcepha...

In the 2016 Winter Meetings Outlook from Meeting Professionals International, respondents predicted a little spending increase but a bigger pricing increase. MPI put those predictions together and what came out was a 2.5 percent decrease in...

There are a few ways to think about revenue management. One is that it gives hoteliers a formula for maximizing revenue per available room. Another is that it’s the “Moneyball” of hospitality—a triumph of data over judgment and experience. And th...

When Lisa Devlin, Esq., Devlin Law Firm, PC, Phoenix, and Barbara Dunn, Esq., Barnes & Thornburg LLP, in Chicago, present case studies from actual meeting contract disputes in education sessions, they sometimes conclude that the parties could...

Julie Coker Graham is the new president and CEO of the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau, replacing President and CEO Jack Ferguson, who retired on December 31, 2015. Coker Graham had been executive vice president at the Philadelphia C...

Planners and hoteliers share their top picks.

“We’re not in the business of putting customers on diets, but healthy food must always be an option. ‘Good for you’ is mainstream,” said David Riederman, worldwide sales director for Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, during a wide-ranging trends discussion...

Meeting planners attending the Financial & Insurance Conference Planners 2016 Winter Symposium absorbed a lot of education in a little time, from how to engage with customers, to how to find confidence, to best practices for e-RFPs, trends in F&B...