Industry Response to Meeting Restrictions Shifts into High Gear

In a hastily called, but packed session at Meeting Professionals International’s MeetDifferent conference, being held in Atlanta this week, Christine Duffy, president and CEO of Maritz Travel, and Jonathan Howe, JD, president, senior partner, Howe & Hutton Ltd., chief legal counsel for MPI, outlined the meeting industry's response to U.S. Government efforts to curtail the meetings, events, and incentive travel programs of companies receiving funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.<