If you’re of a certain age and musical bent, you’ll recognize this as the garbled version everyone sang of Jimi Hendrix’s song Purple Haze (it’s really "scuse me while I kiss the sky"). If you just want to kill some time and reminisce over...

We published this one in our e-newsletter, MeetingsNet Extra, a while back, but it's still funny, I think! ...

Worried that terrorists might dress up like airline and airport workers to get access to our planes, the Transportation Security Administration is piloting some new antiterrorism measures at airports in Miami; Newark, N.J.; Boise; Minneapolis-St...

…but will meeting technology kill meeting industry associations? That’s the question tech guru Corbin Ball raises in an ...

Here’s another spin on the attrition gig—remind people that they’ll get what they pay for if they reserve their room through third-party sites like Expedia and Orbitz. And what they’ll get, according to a study by D.K. Shifflet & Associates...

The National Business Travel Association has released a white paper on the overall impact of CAPPS II and security-related privacy issues on travel. Some of the conclusions: ...

Accordiing to Saturday’s New York Times, the release of airline passenger data in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks airlines including American, United and Northwest gave the FBI millions of records on their customers. ...

Ever hold a family program only to watch in horror as the kids refuse to eat anything but fat-laden macaroni and cheese, hot dogs, or french fries? With obesity such a growing concern among our youngsters nowadays, we can’t afford to let them chow...

This must be Web week! Here’s another study, the Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown & Russell/Yankelovich Partners 2004 National Travel Monitor looking at our ever-increasing online habit. Sixty-nine percent of business travelers are using the Web...

From Chief Marketer e-newsletter-- ...