May 11, 2009
The economic slump and recent backlash against corporate events have taken their toll on U.S. outbound meetings and incentive travel. Some international planners are pursuing meetings business outside of planning, while industry experts urge planners to leverage deals now for future meetings abroad.
April 20, 2009
American Express Business Travel this month said it negotiated with hotels and meeting venues the capability to reserve meeting space and rooms online without completing the purchase as part of an exclusive agreement with meetings technology company Worktopia.
March 16, 2009
Deutsche Bank this month is rolling out a technology-based strategic meetings management initiative to three Asia/Pacific countries as part of the next phase of a two-year project to reengineer its more than $150 million global meetings and events program.
February 02, 2009
Short's Travel Management in April plans to launch a new product that enables corporations to book hotel meeting space and amenities, after integrating its proprietary technology with that of online group hotel booking technology provider Groople, which it acquired last month.
February 02, 2009
American Express Business Travel has signed an exclusive agreement with meetings technology company Worktopia for a small meetings booking product scheduled for release at the end of the second quarter, said Amex Business Travel senior vice president of global marketing and product management Lisa Durocher.
January 09, 2009
Organizations throughout the world are canceling meetings and, at minimum, clamping down on any increase in meeting spending in 2009 as the global economy stagnates, according to the executive summary of a survey of more than 2,700 meeting professionals, produced by Meeting Professionals International and American Express.
December 08, 2008
Conference center and hospitality company Dolce Hotels and Resorts has appointed former Wyndham Hotel Group CEO Steven Rudnitsky as its new president and CEO as the brand seeks significant expansion as well as a diversification of its customer base.
December 04, 2008
Meetings management technology company StarCite today
announced that it has hired Kevin Iwamoto as its vice president of
enterprise strategy. Iwamoto, who started in the job this week,
recently left his previous post as a longtime member of the
Hewlett-Packard travel team. While on the HP team, he served as
president of the National Business Travel Association and was named
the 2002
Business Travel News
Travel Manager of the Year.
November 18, 2008
Conference center and hospitality company Dolce Hotels and Resorts today announced it has appointed former Wyndham Hotel Group CEO Steven Rudnitsky as its new president and CEO.
October 20, 2008
Wireless equipment manufacturer Motorola last year developed a strategic meetings management program as part of a Six Sigma certification that resulted in mandating the use of its meetings team, a standard addendum and a meetings identification system.