American organizations are doing an increasing amount of business in Brazil. As with planning meetings in any foreign country, differences in language, monetary currency, and time zones present enough of a challenge--but throw in differences in...
It's been a relatively quiet hurricane season for the U.S., but busier in the Caribbean and Mexico. Still, though prepared for the worst as storms approached, the resorts in those areas got off very easy...
There seems to be no end to skyrocketing hotel prices in Asia. The average daily rate across the Asia Pacific region was up more than 13 percent this year through June, to $137, according to a report released last week by Deloitte and Touche...
The Metro Toronto Convention Centre was named last month as one of three recipients of the first annual Innovation Awards from AIPC, the International Association of Congress Centres...
Continuing its spate of acquisitions around Europe, MCI, the largest global association and event management company, announced it will merge with Ovation Group, Ireland’s leading meetings, events, and destination management company...
Hotel rates have risen this year in the top international cities--in some cases by shocking amounts. That's according to Smith Travel Research, which studied rates, occupancy, and supply and demand in 15 key markets, 12 of them outside the U.S...
More and more, planners and meeting-goers will be able to use their favorite U.S. hotel brands when traveling the world. This month, Hilton Hotels Corp. announced three major development alliances that are expected to result in 15 new hotels in...
Experts suggest that planners be ever-mindful of legal issues when meeting outside of the U.S. Sourcing, booking, and contracting for space in other countries, particularly in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, can be quite different than here. Of...
If countries in Latin America aren't at the top of your short list for meetings, maybe they should be. “There are some great advantages to meeting in Latin America,” says Eli Gorin, CMP, owner of gMeetings, Aventura, Fla., a meeting management...
