Meetings

The relatively sudden embrace of online meetings management tools by corporate travel booking systems continues, as Galileo International and Worldspan... KEEP READING

New York Life Insurance Co. has saved nearly $3 million in corporate meetings spend by exercising greater control over meeting contracts, negotiating... KEEP READING

The Star Alliance, a network of 15 carriers including United Airlines, Lufthansa and Air Canada, recently enhanced its first global meetings program to... KEEP READING

Though most of the recent attention paid to videoconferencing solutions has centered on desktop or portable systems, one supplier is betting that buyers... KEEP READING

With the dissolution of the partnership under which Maritz Travel Co. handled group travel management for American Express Corporate Travel's large... KEEP READING

In an effort to reduce meetings expenditures without resorting to mandates, Compaq Computer Corp. during the past 12 months has slashed about 25 percent... KEEP READING

New York - Meeting and group travel management trends and tools were spotlighted at last month's Corporate Travel World conference, as several buyers... KEEP READING

Despite the newfound prominence of videoconferencing and Webconferencing, most corporations have chosen not to involve meetings or travel personnel in... KEEP READING

When meetings technology was still in its infancy several years ago, the conventional wisdom held that corporate planners would gravitate to more robust... KEEP READING

American Express and Maritz Travel Co. have terminated their two-and-a-half year arrangement in which Amex referred its larger transient clients to... KEEP READING

Regardless of the multitudes of market-changing forces that have gripped the corporate meeting industry in the past few months from corporate cutbacks,... KEEP READING

Aided by an intranet-based page that suggests travel alternatives based on specific meeting parameters and budgets, Ernst & Young LLP is saving about... KEEP READING

Beset by "intrusions into their traditional markets by hotels," conference centers are offering more technological capabilities and more frequently... KEEP READING

Despite ongoing economic doldrums, new hotels continue to debut in Japan, including the Four Seasons Marunouchi, which, when it opens in October, will... KEEP READING

Meeting portal EventSource, founded in 1998 as a hotel directory and electronic request for proposal engine and grew into a business that offered... KEEP READING