A decade ago, it was only trailblazers who were even thinking about global meetings consolidation. Today, it's right up there with return on investment and compliance as a hot-button issue for pharmaceutical meeting planners. As with U.S. meetings...

Maritz has launched a new attendee survey tool to help companies design effective meetings and to gather information pre- and post-event to show how a meeting performed against corporate goals...

New survey: Travel policy mandates are here to stay

Earlier this Year, as Meeting Professionals International's Professional Education Conference came down to its final hours, attendees streamed into a ballroom in New Orleans' Ernest N. Morial Convention Center for what they thought would be a...

The following is based on a tutorial given at a past RCMA conference. The session included RCMA member David Graves, Church of the Nazarene, Olathe, Kan., Richard Weinstein, vice president of corporate sales and incentives, Carnival; and Amee...

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...