Meeting professionals will have a special opportunity to experience a corporate social responsibility activity that the hospitality industry supports at the Eighth Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Management Forum taking place later this month in...
Picking a meeting hotel that takes its sustainable practices seriously can be tricky business, but here’s a question to add to your site inspection: Does the property recycle its cooking oil...
The pockets of confusion that greeted the release of the Global Reporting Initiative’s Event Organizers Sector Supplement (EOSS) last week pointed to the time and effort that will be needed to put the full menu of sustainable meeting standards...
If you’ve been looking at food and beverage as an area where you can make your meetings more sustainable, the long-awaited APEX/ASTM Sustainable Meeting Standards were supposed to make your life a bit easier...
One of the Future Convention Cities Initiative member cities—Durban, South Africa—has just wrapped up successfully hosting the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and FCCI took the...
2011 was a rough and tumble year, one with more than its share of excitement and innovation. It was also a year when everyone seemed far too busy, with not nearly enough time to ponder or apply new ideas for making meetings more effective...
The Convention Industry Council recently announced that eight of the nine sustainable meeting standards will be published before the end of the month, a huge milestone for a project that has been full-steam ahead for four years...