April 22 marks the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, and with it comes the annual call to action and an opportunity to make a difference. There are many activities to get involved with both locally and internationally as a way to recognize the day...
Sustainable events company MeetGreen has teamed up with TerraPass, which specializes in innovations for environmental impact reduction, to offer the TerraPass Event Carbon Calculator. The goal is give meeting and event organizers a simple way to ...
Meet CJ, one of the St. Bernard Rescue Foundation rescue dogs currently looking for a home in Texas.As much as I love the puppy-cuddling stations Meeting Professionals International has been including in its World Education Congresses in recent y...
From a never-been-done-before concert outside Washington, D.C.’s Carnegie Library to a transportation puzzle that required 470 buses, the Association of Destination Management Executives International honored outstanding creativity and innovation...
Take a deep breath and you can smell it in the air—it’s incentive season! Travel incentives are meant to give qualifiers an experience like no other. Planners work tirelessly to introduce their groups to the sights, smells, sounds...
The industry can be proud to have developed a large diversity of CSR activities for all destination segments: domestic, regional, and long-haul. In developing countries, activities aim to fight poverty, help children, increase education, and fight...
We’re well into the new year, and with so much to be grateful for, I thought I would pass along some suggestions for “random acts of kindness” I’ve seen that would be wonderful for more companies and meeting planners to do...
#CSRShareDay was held on January 22 and in one 24-hour period, 3,725 tweets with 437 contributors had an estimated reach of 802,826 contacts, all with the intention of increasing corporate social responsibility in the meeting and events industry...
Hilton Worldwide has introduced Meet with Purpose, a program to help meeting professionals make healthy choices not just for themselves and their attendees, but for the environment as well...