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.
June 28, 2010
When business consulting, technology systems integration and outsourcing company Logica's team of administrative assistants in the Netherlands were tasked with developing processes for greater control over the company's meetings program last year, they took it upon themselves to implement technology to track spending, garner discounts and preferred relationships with meeting venues and manage their requests-for-proposals process.
June 23, 2010
Only a third of companies centrally manage meetings and even fewer have a consistent meetings and events policy, according to Carlson Wagonlit Travel research released today that claims a strategically managed meetings program and adoption of generally accepted best practices could shave up to one-quarter of companywide meetings expenses.
June 15, 2010
Meeting buyers could benefit from a change to European Union
rules on value-added tax treatment of overseas meetings that takes
effect Jan. 1, 2011, the VAT specialist Meridian Global Services
told
EuroBTN
on Tuesday. This will be particularly beneficial for corporate
customers based outside the EU, such as in the United States, who
no longer will be charged, and subsequently have to recover, VAT
for meetings inside the EU.
June 14, 2010
Since early last year, a group of technologists and industry vets who climbed the SeeUthere and OnVantage branches of the StarCite family tree began working on what they viewed as the next big thing in meetings technology. Like many tech startups before them, they chose a funny-sounding name, OotoWeb, took a readily available technology, attendee management, then worked to make it cheaper and more accessible.
June 11, 2010
It's too early to know how big of an impact the Gulf Coast oil spill will have on business, according to multibrand hotel company chief executives, but it could be considerable if the spill spreads to the East Coast.
April 27, 2010
StarCite today launched a tool designed to manage small group and one-on-one meetings within larger corporate events.
March 12, 2010
The U.S. Travel Association this week announced the creation of an all-star council led by supplier executives that focuses on developing advocacy and promotion efforts for meetings, incentives and trade shows.
March 08, 2010
Cancun, Mexico Many corporate meeting buyers now are required to show return on investment metrics, provide business cases before booking meetings, work with procurement departments within their organizations and apply strategic meetings management practices, according to panelists and attendees at Meeting Professionals International's MeetDifferent conference here last month.