Amex: Prices for Business Travel Spiked in First Quarter

Business travelers paid significantly more for travel-related purchases in the first quarter of 2012, with domestic airfares showing the largest

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5 Benefits of Hiring a Standup Comedian for Your Meeting or Event

For many of us, jokes and standup comedy are the last thing we are thinking about when attending a corporate meeting or event. After all, these

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Comedian  Keith Alberstadt Performing Standup Comedy

Repeat Business

It wasn’t long ago, with the AIG Effect in full swing, that resort and spa meetings were seen as frivolous—to the point of being a nearly

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Insurance Meetings

If a majority of insurance and incentive meeting planners would like to forget the past year ever happened, it’s not surprising. What with

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Great Wolf SoCal Emphasizes Meetings

GARDEN GROVE, Calif.Great Wolf Lodge Southern California/Garden Grove

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Kimpton Monaco Salt Lake City Names Ric Tanner as General Manager

SALT LAKE CITYKimpton Monaco Salt Lake City announced the hire of Ric Tanner as

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IRF Study Reveals Insights on Wellness

The Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) shared the results of its first survey on the topic of

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Checking In

Having just returned from PCMA’s Convening Leaders event in Las Vegas, a couple things hit me—a Sin City epiphany. The meetings industry

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MPI Hails Mietkiewicz as Planner of the Year

MINNEAPOLISMeeting Professionals International (MPI) announced the selection of Robyn Mietkiewicz as Meeting Planner of the Year at its

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Exciting New Meetings Technology: How the Latest Tech Tools Can Create Efficiencies and WOW Attendees

Presenter: Corbin Ball From new methods for running virtual and hybrid meetings to extended reality and beyond, discover

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Vegas Property Slashes Staff

LAS VEGAS The bad combination of competition and the loss of its Hilton franchise appears to be hitting the LVH—Las Vegas Hotel & Casino

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BCEC Hotel Plan Gets Pushback

BOSTON A pending measure in the Massachusetts state legislature that would lift a prohibition on the construction of hotels near the Boston

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Policy Adjustments

More CoverageIncentivesWhile the past 18

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Hotel May Open Atop Hawaii CC

HONOLULU Could a hotel be developed on top of the Hawaii Convention Center Hawaii Convention Center? That is the question Hawaii lawmakers are

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Hotel Project Revives Former Phoenix Bank

PHOENIXCSM Lodging, a division of CSM Corporation, has announced plans for the renovation of the historic Professional Building (the former Valley

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Tattoo Your Attendees to Spread Your Brand Message!

Conference organizers who offer branded onsite services to attendees, such as booths that provide professional headshots and selfie stations, are

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IMEX Show Starts off Strong with Educational and Corporate Offerings

FRANKFURT, Germany A turnaround in the format of the education program of the IMEX Association Day for 2013 resulted in excellent feedback from the

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5 Quick Corporate Tips

Stay flexible. Everyone has a different working style, from making checklists to writing on a white board or using sticky

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Resumes: It’s All in the Details!

No matter how concise you are, there are times when two pages will not be enough room to capture all that you want to say about your career. This

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2013 Meetings Focus Trends Sneak Peek

More than 600 planners completed our annual Meetings Focus Trends Survey this year, revealing that prices continue to cause consternation and the

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