Although the heads of corporate travel departments and the heads of meeting departments within companies have many of the same strategic goals and work with many of the same suppliers, they commonly work independently of one another. But this may...

MeetingsNet asked Carina Bauer, CEO of IMEX Group, to identify five major global meeting trends and discuss how they played into the design of the education and activities at IMEX Frankfurt 2015, and how they will be integrated at IMEX America...

Well, maybe not a steal! And yet, of the major U.S. metropolitan areas covered in the 2016 Global Business Travel Price Outlook, just released by the Global Business Travel Association Foundation and Carlson Wagonlit Travel, New York has the...

Last week I was in the second largest city in the European Union, Berlin, Germany. Berlin is about as historic and vibrant a city as one could ever hope to visit, and surprisingly affordable. More than one-third of the city is covered in parks an...

“How do we reconcile the need to serve all corners of the globe, to help boost development, and to support sustainable tourism, whilst also taking care to reduce CO2 emissions?” asked Tony Tyler, director general and CEO, International...

A group of tourism specialists with long experience in marketing, lobbying, research, training, and more have formed a consortium called Primapact to promote and advocate for the travel and tourism industry along with related economic sectors...

Expert advice for managing risk at meetings outside the U.S.

What planners of international meetings need to know about currency, VAT, and visas

Building budgets is a difficult exercise in our industry: for events teams, procurement, or finance stakeholders in charge of business events spend. Likewise it is also a difficult exercise for convention centers, hotel chains, and meetings and...