Bruce MacMillan, CA, president and CEO of Meeting Professionals International, welcomed more than 3,700 attendees to MPI’s World Education Conference à la Montréal during Sunday’s opening general session. Dressed in a Canadiens hockey jersey...
Registered Traveler programs will be in place at 20 to 30 U.S. airports by the end of this year, and 50 airports by the end of 2008, predict executives from FLO Corp., one of five RT companies vying to capture their share of this burgeoning...
Today, strategic meeting management technologies have a low-tech side. When the bills come in, spend figures have to be manually keyed in to the expense reporting system. The next step for strategic meeting management technologies is to put some...
By the first quarter of 2008, StarCite expects to have a new travel booking feature: a direct link to Orbitz for Business and Travelport for Business from its attendee-management application...
Unless Osram Sylvania Inc. can get some quick relief from a Florida court, it’s going to have to find a different location for its national sales meeting, booked for October...
Destination Marketing Association International (the former International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus) held its annual convention in Pittsburgh last week, where leadership announced several items of note for meeting planners...
The Association of Destination Management Executives, Dayton, Ohio, is rolling out a new accreditation program for destination management companies...
The continuing medical education enterprise brought in more than $2.3 billion in revenues in 2006, according to the Accreditation Council for CME's annual data report. That figure represents a 6 percent increase over 2005. While the growth is a...