May 22, 2012 - 06:35 AM ET
Meetings technology firm The Active Network today launched a
suite of mobile solutions for its Business Solutions division, which includes
StarCite, that allows meeting organizers to create event-specific apps and
offers a gamification component and...
May 14, 2012 - 12:45 PM ET
The White House Office of
Management and Budget on Friday instructed federal agencies to cut fiscal-year
2013 travel expenses by 30 percent from 2010 levels, 10 percentage-points
deeper than previously ordered cuts.
May 03, 2012 - 03:00 PM ET
Rare
are the times when hoteliers are frustrated by too much demand, but a tsunami
of electronic meeting requests for proposals, many including dozens of
properties and triggered by the rise of a few third-party RFP applications, has
left properties...
April 26, 2012 - 03:00 PM ET
Congress
has voted to cut and freeze travel spending by government agencies for five
years, an apparent response to the scandal over the General Services
Administration's excessive spending on its Western Regions Conference in 2010.
April 19, 2012 - 01:35 PM ET
Marriott International boosted its revenue outlook for the
year, based largely on improving corporate transient and group demand that it
projects will continue throughout the year.
April 19, 2012 - 11:50 AM ET
Carlson Wagonlit Travel this week unveiled a
meeting cost estimator that uses historical client airfare and hotel booking
data to calculate the cost of a future meeting based on attendees' points of
departure. The travel management company also revealed...
April 11, 2012 - 03:45 PM ET
Sabre Travel Network by June expects to launch its new virtual meetings distribution marketplace for corporate travelers and arrangers who use GetThere's newly released home page, 200,000 travel agents using Sabre Red and others via a website.
April 04, 2012 - 06:20 PM ET
Calling his company's
acquisition of Experient "a growth initiative, not an efficiency
play," Maritz Travel CEO David Peckinpaugh on Wednesday told BTN that
Maritz would operate Experient as a distinct entity and that there were
"no immediate plans"...
March 23, 2012 - 01:15 PM ET
Meetings technology firm Cvent anticipates
releasing by the second quarter of 2013 a module that would generate
location-specific cost estimates for proposed future meetings. Among other data
sources, it would use negotiated corporate hotel rates and...
February 27, 2012 - 03:15 PM ET
The Active Network's acquisition of StarCite, one
of the longest-standing and most prominent corporate meetings technology firms
and itself an amalgamation of several former competitors, may not drastically
change the segment's competitive landscape,...
January 31, 2012 - 05:05 PM ET
The Active Network's $57.7
million purchase of meetings technology firm StarCite offers the event
marketing company, founded in 1998 as an attendee registration firm focusing on
endurance sports and other outdoor events, a foothold in a different aspect...
January 27, 2012 - 12:55 PM ET
The Global Reporting Initiative this week released sustainability
guidance and standards developed specifically for meeting organizers to assess
and report the impact of their events.
January 11, 2012 - 03:30 PM ET
The Active Network plans to maintain newly acquired
StarCite's platform and integrate its strategic meetings management
capabilities with its own attendee registration tools, Active officials said
during a recent investor conference call.
December 16, 2011 - 07:15 AM ET
Sanofi Pasteur deputy director of travel services
Will Anderson compares the process of incubating a strategic meetings
management program with the Petri dishes so integral to his company's business,
with pre-negotiated hotel contracts, online meetings...
November 30, 2011 - 02:50 PM ET
Carlson
Wagonlit Travel claims to have recorded 40 percent growth in sales volume this
year for its Meetings & Events division, including a doubling of business
in France, Germany, Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United States. Hervé
Joseph-Antoine,...