SearchParty.com has released a beta of its new hotel price search engine, which lets you figure out not just room rates, but also how much you'll pay in taxes, booking fees, and cancellation fees. According to the press release, it has info on ...

Meeting planners do more business travel than most, so I figured you all might want to participate in this survey on business travel, brought to you by European online business travel management company KDS and the Association of Corporate Travel...

Is your AV guy the absolute best? How about your sound technician, or the person who manages your meeting Web site? Today's the day you can say thanks—April 3 is cheese weasel day, where you leave a slice of dairy under your favorite techie's...

“K,” a new employee at Overture, an online advertising company, received an order from his boss, saying, “We have a meeting on Jeju Island at 9:00 a.m. Please for prepare the meeting now.” Upon hearing the order, he began to pack a...

First it was Los Angeles, then Bellingham, Wash., and San Diego. Now the move to stop Internet travel sites from charging customers for taxes the city never sees is moving to Atlanta. From The Atlantic Journal-Constitution...

Meeting planners often talk about how they want to be more strategic and get a place at the table with the top execs. This may not be the way to do it, but it's a lot of fun. C'mon, it's Friday—let's play some Office Invaders.

According to Forbes.com, they are (drumroll, please)...

OK, you really can't use it for tracking meeting spend (sorry!). But when my dad sent me a link to WheresGeorge.com, I had to check it out. The site lets you enter the serial number of any bill in your wallet, and in theory anyway, you'll be able...

When it comes to convention center slogans, Boston won when it got Philadelphia to drop its "Where Conventions Make History" slogan (Philly went with "Where Bigger Meets Better" instead). Boston officials said the former slogan was too similar to...

If the new U.S. requirement that everyone entering the U.S. via sea or air show a passport goes into effect as scheduled on Dec. 31 of this year, you may be saying bye to some of your Canadian attendees. And it could hurt the Canadian meetings...