The face2face MeetingsNet blog is an eclectic mix of news about meetings and events, hospitality, and business travel, along with helpful hints and the occasional rant.
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...
It depends, but if you’re linked to the hotel brand’s site, you should be in the pink, according to the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International and Smith Travel Research’s first-ever hotel Internet marketing metrics survey. The...
Now that so many drive-to, regional meetings are taking place, I wouldn’t be surprised if pet-loving attendees like me might be tempted to bring along the pooch (or kitty, or cockatoo). If you think your participants might want the option—with the...
I remember reading a while back about some couple who got a company to sponsor their wedding so they could be married for free, but this article from BizBash takes it to a whole other dimension. Corporations are now willing to cough up the bucks...
Sorry, the sailor/punster in me took over the keyboard for a minute—what I wanted to write about was a very cool thing The Fairmont Orchid is doing by partnering with the University of Hawaii-Hilo’s Kalakaua Marine Education Center to regularly...
Don't let what happened to Bally's in Las Vegas happen at your meeting--according to this article in the Las Vegas Sun, the sterno can under a coffee pot in a meeting room caused a fire that resulted in $500 in damages to the room, and an...