In tough economic times, few in the industry bear the brunt as much as independent meeting planners. When clients cut back on budgets and the

 In tough economic times, few in the industry bear the brunt as much as independent meeting planners. When clients cut back on budgets and the

If dealing with a seller’s market hasn’t become second nature by now, there’s a message within industry forecasts: Buck up and

 If dealing with a seller’s market hasn’t become second nature by now, there’s a message within industry forecasts: Buck up and continue to work

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1. As far as the iBeacon with mobile apps, app developers are charging far more than $10 for integration.  What options do you recommend

Crowd-flow isn’t something you necessarily think about when it comes to smaller events. If you are planning an event for 20 people in a restaurant,

WASHINGTON, D.C.With a location near the site where Willard and Alice Marriott launched a worldwide international hospitality company from their nine

What with headlines about $16 muffins at a Justice Department meeting and excesses surrounding IRS and GSA conferences—not to mention sequestration,

IACC surveyed 250 meeting professionals and suppliers from five continents for its

Daly Cruz, executive chef of Ontario Convention Center (OCC) and Toyota Arena in Ontario, California, started working in the

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Austria is renown as a great producer of top chefs, such as Wolfgang Puck. Add Josef Huber, who has worked with Puck in the chaotic kitchen at the

Whether I’m coaching someone who’s been a meeting planner for five years or 15-plus years, it’s likely that the person will take a

Is my meeting “green?“The meeting industry may finally answer this question when the Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX) launches its standards for

When Web 2.0 arrived on the scene in 2001 it was soon dubbed "The Collaborative Web." Web 2.0 is not so much a group of technologies that signify an

If you ask people about the last time they really enjoyed attending a meeting in an urban location, chances are it had to do with the proximity of

Boasting more than 200 parks and gardens within city limits, Portland, Oregon, is a natural choice for business events that want to inhale some fresh