May 1, 2008

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More CFOs Involved With Meetings

More and more CFOs are moving meetings front of mind....

Private Parties in Public Spaces

When Minneapolis DMC metroConnections decided on a M*A*S*H-themed reception, complete with cast lookalikes, tents even a helicopter Harriet Island in...

How to Capture Small-Meetings Spend

The economy may be tanking, but the prolonged hotel seller's market persists. Corporations are in budget-cutting mode, and the pressure is on meeting-planning...

Keynotes

Airlines in Crisis

Kevin Mitchell, chairman of the Business Travel Coalition, weighs in on the troubled airline industry....

Pharma Planning By the Numbers

It's no secret that the job of the meeting planner has changed significantly in recent years. Perhaps none more so than the pharmaceutical planner, who...

Pack It In

Pack light or pay more. That's the message for your attendees starting this month when five U.S. airlines begin charging extra for checking a second piece...

Meeting Ed Online

The University of Nevada Las Vegas is offering live, college-level classes online featuring UNLV faculty and leading industry experts. Each one-hour webinar...

Strategic Reading

Any planner who has ever been asked to justify the expense of holding a meeting knows how challenging it can be to gather ROI metrics. Here are two books...

Raising the Bar

What would your meeting attendees say if you ditched the hotel ballroom in favor a bar? That's just what Skyy Spirits did at the company's annual sales...

Pillow Fight

The Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort has been ordered to pay a company more than $200,000 in damages and fees as a result of a corporate event that went...

Introducing Virtualis

If you've ever looked for an excuse to try out the 3-D online environment called Second Life, here's a good one: Virtualis, an eye-popping event island...

Breakouts

Wellness Incentives Take Center Stage

As more organizations get serious about incentivizing employee behaviors, it was only a matter of time before employee wellness became a target. Because...

Prevent intellectual property theft

If you are planning what you regard as a unique event, are the details of its execution confidential? ...

7 Tips to Boost Sponsorship Revenues

Corporate golf event planners might easily follow the standard wisdom when it comes to finding sponsors. But I'm going to warn you against what everybody...

Save on City Meetings

Checklists Entertainment 1. Use Universities Cities such as Boston are teeming with universities. Contact the schools' music departments to inquire about...

Gaming Venues

Rio Mar Beach Resort & Spa Rio Grande, Puerto Rico The News: The resort's 7,000-square-foot casino reopened after a $5 million expansion. Specs: 600 guest...

The South-Central States

There may be a hotel seller's market nationwide, but meetings are still being courted in the South-Central states, where billions of dollars are being...

The Caribbean

Pointing to tourism growth rates around 1 percent, compared to world tourism expansion of 7 percent, Alec Sanguinetti, director general and CEO of the...

Check In

Let Green Start With You

If you have ever thought that by going green, you won't really make a difference, think again. I recently led a roundtable discussion on green meetings...

Post-Con

Tyra Hilliard

Tyra Hilliard, Esq., CMP, CMI legal columnist focused on legal, risk management, and ethical issues) If you could be anywhere in the world, where would...

Zooming into the Future

The International Association of Conference Centers experienced a series of firsts at its recent annual meeting, held at the Zermatt Resort & Spa in Midway,...

MGM Grand

By the time you read this, the slot machines will be clanging, roulette wheels will be spinning, card dealers will be dealing, and restaurants will be...

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