Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, long at the helm of environmental awareness, has come up with a new way to go green. The company has purchased, on an initial one-year basis, the equivalent of 116 MWh of wind power through a Canadian nonprofit...
In mid-February, heads rolled at Meeting Professionals International when the Dallas-based association's new CEO, Bruce MacMillan let go five senior staffers: Edjuan Bailey, vice president, marketing and brand management; Dawn Myers, director of...
It seems that convention and visitors bureaus get a bad rap from corporate meeting managers. The gripes: CVBs are too association-focused, they take care of only citywides, they don't value corporate business, they send leads to every member hotel...
We've all been there: A speaker asks the audience to please turn off their BlackBerrys and cellphones. Not everyone listens. When this happened during a recent industry meeting I attended, the planner sitting next to me, BlackBerry on her lap...
In the first two weeks of February, NASD (the governing body for securities firms) sanctioned several companies, including Fidelity Investments, for violations of regulations applying to gifts, entertainment, and meetings...
If you want an engaged audience, soothe their senses. “Meeting Sense,” a new service at the Mandarin Oriental, Miami, uses radiant orange lights on breakfast and lunch presentations to stimulate attendees' sense of sight, infusions of soft citrus...
Companies are not cutting back on events. A recent reader survey by our sister magazine Special Events reveals that 57 percent of event planners — both in-house and independent — expect to stage more events in 2007 than they did in 2006. Just...
International Travel is always an adventure because it's fun to see new things, eat new foods, and have people curse at me in new languages. But the best thing about traveling to foreign countries is to see what they have built...
Jennie Campbell, CMP, CMM, PMP, chief administrative officer, marketing and business development for Stewart Capital LLC, Metairie, La., lost everything she owned in Hurricane Katrina — including her coveted 1998 Tomorrow's Leader award from...