CIC Study Touts Industry's Economic Clout
Oct 01, 2005
Meetings, conventions, exhibitions, and incentive travel generated $122.3 billion in direct spending in the United States last year, according to the Convention Industry Council's Economic Impact Study, released in September. Association-sponsored...
Ethics Training Takes Hold
Oct 01, 2005
Not long ago, ethics training was the exception rather than the rule in corporate America. Now, the majority of companies — 69 percent compared to just 37 percent in 1994, according to the Ethics Resource Center, Washington, D.C. — delivers this...
Preferred Vendors: A Position Paper
Oct 01, 2005
A new must-read has rolled off the presses at Meeting Professionals International. The third position paper from its Global Corporate Circle of Excellence tackles planner-supplier relationships in a strategic meeting management environment — that...
Smooth Operators
Oct 01, 2005
The good news: Meeting planners and facilitators both want the same thing: the success of a client's meeting. The not-so-good news: Most planners don't know how to work with facilitators or truly understand how they can help them to do their jobs...
The Price of Risk
Oct 01, 2005
WHEN KATRINA BLEW THROUGH the Gulf states, she just may have blown your budget for meeting cancellation insurance as well...
Meeting Evaluation Technologies (2005)
Oct 01, 2005
To measure is to know. These are the words of Lord Kelvin, 19th-century mathematical physicist. Another of his quotable phrases: “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” Indeed, meeting executives are wise to take his thinking to heart...
EXHIBITION INDUSTRY: More Good News from CEIR
Oct 01, 2005
With growth in attendance, net square footage of exhibition space, exhibitors, and revenue, the exhibition industry showed signs of recovery in 2004, according to the second annual Center For Exhibition Industry Research Index...
Six Steps to Successful Board Meetings
Sep 01, 2005
IN THE ERA OF SARBANES-OXLEY, corporate boards are in the spotlight more than ever — and so are board meetings. Board Strategies, a resource for corporate board members developed by SecTec LLC, Research Triangle Park, N.C., offers the following...
Return on Investment: The Bottom Line
Sep 01, 2005
THE INITIALISM ROI appears regularly in industry articles and is widely used by meeting planners and suppliers alike, yet there is confusion around the true meaning of the term. Many use the term ROI to mean cost savings or cost avoidance, while...
Reflections on the London Attacks
Sep 01, 2005
I lived and worked in London for many years before moving to the United States. Subsequent to the bomb attacks of July 7 and the attempted bombings two weeks later, I have thought about the thousands of times I traveled across London on the...
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