with several new services including benchmarking, business intelligence, supplier rationalization, spend optimization and program design strategies as well as production, staging and audiovisual design, according to the company. Now called Meetings IQ, the new services join the hotel sourcing and negotiation and meeting planning services offered by a Travel Leaders meetings division that
launched in July 2012. Travel Leaders Corporate president David Holyoke in a statement cited "increased demand around meetings from our clients and prospective clients" as to the travel management company's decision to offer "strategic meetings management type deliverables."