Meetings

After spending most of the past 12 months developing and deploying its transient online booking capabilities and refining its air program, SBC... KEEP READING

The persistent shortening of lead time for planning and purchasing corporate meetings, through economic times favorable and unfavorable, has sent buyers... KEEP READING

Midwest Express Airlines, continuing a trend of smaller carriers expanding services in their corporate group programs, has introduced functionality that... KEEP READING

The disastrous Sept. 11 attacks on Manhattan and Washington, D.C, have led to an immediate spate of meeting cancellations, with scores of companies... KEEP READING

In one of the most comprehensive moves toward online meeting management to date, food and beverage maker Quaker Oats Co. has mandated that all employees... KEEP READING

Despite the efforts of the conference center industry to position their properties as finely attuned to the technological and budgetary needs of the... KEEP READING

Twinsburg, Ohio-based independent meetings management giant Conferon last month agreed to offer its corporate clients online attendee management company... KEEP READING

Now that many convention and visitors bureaus have developed or allied with technological systems that expedite responses to requests for proposals, and... KEEP READING

The proposed $362 million acquisition of PictureTel Corp. by Polycom Inc. has drawn the interest of the U.S.... KEEP READING

Booking expensive meetings at extravagant resorts is hardly in vogue now among corporations trying to squeeze savings out of their meeting and travel... KEEP READING

Meeting portal EventSource last month introduced its first noncommissionable service package, offering a road-show program geared primarily toward... KEEP READING

Stymied for months by some ironclad cutbacks in the corporate meetings market, individual hotels have introduced or are emphasizing daily inclusive... KEEP READING

Marriott International recently waded deeper into the turbulent waters of points-for-planners programs, doubling the amount of reward points which can... KEEP READING

Five billion dollars of construction in Orlando will not inconvenience business travelers visiting the area in coming months, but will make the city a... KEEP READING

Cardinal Communications' RegWeb attendee management tool, which in August inadvertently left exposed 277 credit card numbers, was selected last month by... KEEP READING