Meetings

Buoyed, in some cases, by new methods of group revenue management that allow airline sales representatives to offer deeper discounts to meeting... KEEP READING

In the midst of its first companywide meetings centralization initiative, which officials hope will slash $20 million of corporate meetings spending in... KEEP READING

For no-hassle travel within Japan, nothing beats the Japan Rail pass. Sold only to foreign visitors staying 90 days or less, the pass is an ideal... KEEP READING

The acquisition of McGettigan Partners last month by Maritz Travel Co. certainly will reduce industry competition for new clients but should not... KEEP READING

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The new CEO of group housing technology provider Passkey Inc. said the company plans to expand its reach next year, including possibly creating a... KEEP READING

Luxury resorts and hotel chains, facing a softened economy and meeting cutbacks, are working diligently to retain and attract corporate senior executive... KEEP READING

Despite the lack of a mandate requiring employees to use its four-year-old meeting services department, Cisco Systems Inc. realized more than $4.5... KEEP READING

When investment banking firm Lehman Brothers last month announced that it was moving its headquarters to a new 32-story office tower at Seventh Avenue... KEEP READING

With the entire concept of incentive travel as an effective employee motivator called into question given the current state of world affairs the... KEEP READING

Attendee management portal B-there.com last month announced a partnership with Philadelphia-based meetings consolidation firm McGettigan Partners to... KEEP READING

Attention given the videoconferencing and Webconferencing industries by would-be meeting attendees either unable or disinclined to travel after the... KEEP READING

The inescapable trends toward shrinking lead times for corporate meetings have led to drastic changes in the manner in which hotel space is pursued and... KEEP READING

Meetings Today's exclusive short-term meetings study was conducted with faxed and mailed surveys from 132 corporate meeting buyers, representing a wide... KEEP READING

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 have injected uncertainty and confusion into the U.S. corporate meetings marketplace because there is no precedent... KEEP READING