The latest on the destinations, food and beverage, speakers, and technology behind the business of meeting planning.
Meetings Industry Sees Tough Times Ahead By Rachel Wimberly - 07/06/2009
There are few sectors of the economy that haven't been impacted by the global recession, but the meetings industry has been hit particularly hard, grappling with not only inevitable drops in attendance and cancellations, but also falling hotel rates, clients' reduced budgets and nagging perception issues. More
Small Planners: Meetings Still Have Might By Stephanie Corbin - 07/06/2009
The economy is giving meeting planners worries, but for some smaller companies, adjustments are being made to compensate for the changing business environment. Those alterations include renegotiating contracts, new marketing techniques, clients cutting offsite events and reducing the length of meetings.
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Meetings Industry Sees Tough Times Ahead By Rachel Wimberly - 07/06/2009
There are few sectors of the economy that haven't been impacted by the global recession, but the meetings industry has been hit particularly hard, grappling with not only inevitable drops in attendance and cancellations, but also falling hotel rates, clients' reduced budgets and nagging perception issues.
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Fewer Meetings Are on the Horizon 06/29/2009
Meeting planners are dealing with a double whammy when it comes to doing business right now. First, the global economic downturn has put a damper on the number of meetings booked. Second, the meetings universe also has had to grapple with image, publicity and public policy concerns.
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Organizers, Contractors Cautiously Optimistic By Michael Hart - 06/29/2009
Nobody’s happy, but things could be worse. That seemed to be the mood of the nearly 200 attendees who gathered June 11 in Washington, D.C., for the Exhibition & Convention Executives Forum, as well as the estimated 150 attendees who met a week later at the Exhibition Services & Contractors Assn. Summer Educational Conference in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.
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MPI Looks to Prove Meetings' Worth 06/22/2009
Meeting Professionals Intl.'s annual World Education Congress, a conference and exhibition to be held July 11-14 at the Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, will focus on the premise that meetings and events improve sales and organizational productivity.
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ECEF Has Meaty Agenda Planned 06/08/2009
The Exhibition & Convention Executives Forum, on tap June 11 at the Mandarin Oriental in Washington, D.C., only might be a one-day conference, but it's packed with speakers and content.
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USTA Exec: Change Is In the Air for Travelers By Stephanie Corbin - 05/11/2009
Change was the message Bruce Bommarito, executive vice president and COO of the U.S. Travel Assn., imparted to attendees of the Orange County (California) Tourism Council’s inaugural Tourism Conference April 29, emphasizing the need to bring more international visitors to the United States and USTA's Meetings Mean Business initiative.
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Event Tech Blog Stephen Nold, President, Advon Technologies June 21, 2009 Posting from London
I arrived Saturday, June 20th, in London for the preparations for the MTO Summit UK... More
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