The GBTA Foundation—the education and research arm of the Global Business Travel Association—has released a major update to its Travel Risk Management Maturity Model self-assessment tool, known as TRM3. In addition to assessing nine travel risk c...

You may have heard about the incident at this month’s South by Southwest festival in which a woman was asked to remove her hijab at registration in order to get her photo ID taken. This happened to Ibtihaj Muhammad, a U.S. Olympic fencer, the ...

Last month I started a series on what pharmaceutical companies and hoteliers need from each other with respect to meetings and conventions. My first article addressed meals caps and how they have not been raised by most pharmaceutical companies i...

Meeting and travel planners have a lot of questions about the mosquito-borne Zika virus, and unfortunately some of those questions are unanswerable right now. For example, despite a dramatic increase in the cases of babies born with microcepha...

How to choose the right kind of insurance for your meeting

CES, the Consumer Technology Association’s giant annual trade show, opens its 2016 run in Las Vegas January 6. The event is known as a premier showcase for new technologies, but organizers will also be introducing the expected 150,000 attendees...

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio delivered a powerful speech at a side event during COP21, advocating for a global climate treaty.As host for the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), which took place over a span of nearly two weeks, from...

At the American Society of Association Executives Annual Conference and Exhibition, held in August in Detroit, I went to a great learning lab session about disruptive developments that could affect future meetings. Key among the disrupters discus...

Today's guest post is by Andrew Taffin, CEO of Tallen Technology Rentals. Fire. Terrorism. Riots. Hurricanes. There is no shortage of events outside of your control that can affect a meeting. While planners know they can rely on their on-site ...