"It happens every day: Hotels need to fill rooms, meeting planners need some space, period, end of story," says Jim Etkin, president of the latest meeting auction site to hit the Internet, MpBid.com (www.mpbid.com). The site, launched in April...
Hyatt International plugs into the Asia meeting market. Luxury is no longer enough in a luxury hotel: Today, business travelers also want connectivity. Hyatt International has heard that message, and late last year launched a technology concierge...
Focused and fascinated in your seat in the meeting room, it dawns on you that this is the best training you have ever attended. You can't wait to tell the trainer how much you appreciate her hard work and how useful the information will be. But at...
Listen up, technology event marketers: Someday your product won't be sexy. Technologies, like people, mature. And when they do, your event marketing strategy will have to change. Can't happen here? Listen to Kathleen Noce, corporate events manager...
Show Floor on Wheels Dell Computer was in Las Vegas for Comdex, but not on the show floor. The company took a meeting room in the convention center for its PR people, which got the Dell name on the exhibitor list, but there wasn't much in the way...
Early in 1999, the U.S. business press was measuring Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) for a coffin. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's vision of a Silicon Valley built from scratch for East Asia was being torpedoed by his own intemperate...
* The Ritz-Carlton Seoul has installed fast Internet connections in all 400 guest rooms as well as its meeting rooms, which, it says, makes the Ritz the first hotel in Korea to offer such service. The property has nine international restaurants...
What if IBM held a meeting and nobody came? What if that was the plan...
If the promise of the Internet for the meeting industry is efficiency, then one of its success stories is certainly housing for citywide events. No, the online systems aren't perfect yet. No, a definitive standard hasn't emerged. But with several...