In just 11 years, electronic requests for proposals have grown from novelty features on hoteliers' Web sites to an entire subindustry with hundreds of facilitators, templates, and tools. The technology for e-RFPs has remained relatively static...

The skies were not friendly to travelers in 2006. And while they haven't been much kinder so far in 2007, some positive developments are in the air...

Bridging the gap between corporate meeting professionals and procurement executives, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, Alexandria, Va., and the American Purchasing Society, Aurora, Ill., have formed a strategic partnership providing...

Instituting a strategic meeting management program in the United States 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...

Anyone who would select “When The End Is Not in Sight” as a title must be in the midst of something and not be able to predict or see the ending of it...

Developing preferred supplier agreements and standardizing the site selection process are just some of the ways Kelli Livers, director of global meetings services at AIG, is improving the bottom line...

Jack Eichhorn has seen both sides of the equation. Having made the shift about a year ago from meeting planner at another high-tech company to procurement exec at Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle, Eichhorn is well-versed in the nuances of the...