Most meeting activities aimed at satisfying a commitment to corporate social responsibility are meaningful to meeting professionals and to a small minority of participants, but mostly irrelevant to the social, economic, and environmental goals...
As oil continues to wash up on beaches around the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, companies with upcoming meetings in the Gulf region face tough decisions about whether to pull the plug—and concerns about the...
Tighter budgets and continuing perception concerns have many companies toning down their incentive programs. Here’s how one planner ditched the extravagance but kept the wow.
New meeting industry event partnerships at IMEX America, AIBTM, and PCMA Virtual Edge are booming,
with hopes of luring attendees and exhibitors.
The 2010 IMEX exhibition, showcasing incentive travel, meetings, and event suppliers from around the globe, recognized outstanding environmental and community-service efforts during its annual awards ceremony in Frankfurt.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has introduced sustainable-meeting guidelines at all its North American properties and will expand the program globally in 2011.
On July 24, at the World Education Congress in Vancouver, British Columbia, Meeting Professionals International will honor the U.S. Green Building Council with a RISE Award for Organizational Achievement.
Portland, San Francisco, and Banff/Lake Louise have raised the bar
