Meetings

A three-year implementation of an extensive meetings management strategy, centered around a new policy requiring central registration of events and the... KEEP READING

Travelocity Business president Ellen Keszler last month told Meetings Today the company is in talks with SeeUthere Technologies and StarCite Inc. to... KEEP READING

Some hotels this year have resurrected the long-dormant practice of applying yield management strategies to ancillary corporate meeting revenues in... KEEP READING

The growth in functionality and scale of meetings data consolidation technology during the past several years which has offered corporations the ability... KEEP READING

U.S. Bancorp now offers a Visa meetings card for users of its corporate card representing the first public introduction of meeting card functionality... KEEP READING

The new CEO of the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau, Christopher Bowers, a former longtime United Airlines executive, plans to stress the inherent... KEEP READING

A new policy mandating the use of internal meeting space, when available, for all applicable meetings and events has allowed New York-based Credit... KEEP READING

The recent spate of travel agency consolidation particularly Carlson Wagonlit Travel's acquisition earlier this month of Maritz Inc.'s corporate travel... KEEP READING

Hilton Hotels Corp. earlier this month introduced a soft-dollar meetings package offering discounts on ancillary service fees and complimentary upgrades... KEEP READING

Corporate meeting buyers during the past six months have found far fewer bargains at hotels for small, short-term meetings both when compared with... KEEP READING

American Management Systems Inc. late last year developed meetings packages and began offering internal meeting sponsors a checklist of available hotel... KEEP READING

Corporate meeting buyers have some general opportunity to save money on resort meetings through the remainder of 2004, particularly on ancillary meeting... KEEP READING

The National Business Travel Association's groups and meetings committee this week is expected to release its first product, a white paper describing... KEEP READING

Nearly half of all corporations in the past two years either have instituted specific policies or procedures to address the effects of consistently... KEEP READING

The ability of corporate meeting planners to manage contracted hotel room blocks has been complicated by a series of recent trends and events, requiring... KEEP READING