Experts suggest that planners be ever-mindful of legal issues when meeting outside of the U.S. Sourcing, booking, and contracting for space in other countries, particularly in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, can be quite different than here. Of...
If countries in Latin America aren't at the top of your short list for meetings, maybe they should be. “There are some great advantages to meeting in Latin America,” says Eli Gorin, CMP, owner of gMeetings, Aventura, Fla., a meeting management...
Planning a meeting or incentive in Canada is a little trickier than it's been in the past, but there's still good reason to meet in our neighbor to the north. First the good news: Prices were expected to remain stable for U.S. travelers in the...
Instituting a strategic meeting management program in the United States is one thing; expanding it globally is quite another. Corporate travel and meeting buyers gathered May 7 to discuss challenges to multinational SMMPs at a panel discussion...
Two dominant themes stand out from the three major meeting planning conferences I've attended since January: the globalization of meetings and the greening of meetings...
I’m going to guess that, like me, anyone who travels fairly frequently puts together his or her own private “best” and “worst” lists. With a little prompting I can probably come up with a list of the 10 nicest hotels I’ve every stayed in. Or the...
A Decision by the British government to increase a tax on all flights leaving the United Kingdom has airlines and tourism and travel organizations in that country worried about the effect the increase will have on air travel into the U.K...
As he planned a June 2007 Allstate Insurance Co. incentive trip to the Caribbean, Mark Mosley thought long and hard about his group's flight arrangements. His final conclusion: Between the sky-high fares and the many inconveniences now associated...
