August 27, 2010
Getting a handle on small meetings remains a challenge even
for mature travel programs, though companies that tackle them stand to find
significant savings in their overall meetings and travel spending levels,
according to a panel at the National Business Travel Association International
Convention and Expedition in Houston this month.
August 25, 2010
A new model to measure and analyze corporate strategic
meetings management program development and implementation is being constructed
by the NBTA Foundation and meetings technology supplier StarCite, officials
said this month.
August 23, 2010
Negotiating meetings contracts and finding available meeting
space have increased slightly in difficulty over the past six months, according
to survey of 90 travel buyers by Maxvantage, a combined effort of American
Express Business Travel and Maritz Travel.
August 23, 2010
A new survey by American Express, the Professional
Convention Management Association and travel marketing firm Ypartnership shows
that meeting planners are taking a turn into more positive territory, marked by
meetings attendance and budget growth, following budget cuts, cancellations,
declining attendance, bad publicity and faltering bookings that have beset the
meetings industry since late 2008.
August 18, 2010
Gregory Dukat, CEO of
meetings management technology supplier StarCite, spoke recently with Business
Travel News senior associate editor
Michael B. Baker about blossoming corporate interest in strategic meetings
management and recent developments within the firm.
August 12, 2010
Sabre Travel Network and Cisco are jointly developing a vendor-agnostic
distribution system for agencies and corporations to book telepresence suites,
the companies announced Thursday.
August 09, 2010
Hyatt Hotels & Resorts and Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Worldwide in recent weeks each announced new sustainability components to their
corporate meeting offerings.
August 09, 2010
Corporate card providers are reporting increased interest in
payment products tailored for meeting expenditures, but most corporate planners
still have not adopted payment tools as part of their programs, according to a
recent study.
July 19, 2010
Event management technology supplier Cvent on Monday
launched an upgraded version of its Cvent Supplier Network that includes
simplified versions of its request-for-proposals tool and enhanced venue information
listings.
July 07, 2010
BCD Meetings & Incentives became an affiliate member of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry on June 18, it announced this week. ABPI enforces the code of practice that governs the staging of meetings by United Kingdom-base pharmaceutical companies. As in the rest of Europe, there are strict rules governing issues such as how much can be spent on meetings involving doctors and other medical professionals, and even how much time at an event can be devoted to leisure activities.