Even for companies with strategic meetings management departments, cost allocation remains a thorny issue, deeply tied to corporate culture. The debate centers on determining the departmental budget...

Avis Gives Rand The Wheel Just after it announced the search for a new president was over, the board of directors at Avis Rent A Car Inc.--which has lacked a CEO since the departure of R.

Red Lion Centralizes Reservations H2Angus: Buyers don't need to talk to hotel/H2 By Linda Humphrey Vancouver, Wash. - Adding a twist to the concept of the seamless reservations system, Red Lion

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Three New York Properties Plan Expensive Upgrades By Tom Belden T hree of New York's better-known international brand-name hotels-two of them elegant old dowagers and one a relative

Time to flip the model and consolidate multiple relationships under the ownership of the individual rather than the businesses.

Newsmaker: WizCom Turns To HFS Vet To Drive Changes By Mary Ann McNultyBy promoting Flo Lugli last month to the post of new president and general manager of WizCom International Ltd.'s

American Puts Nickells On Mtgs. By Chris DavisAmerican Airlines' new managing director of groups, company meetings and specialty markets said the airline will focus on globalization

Even as the federal government attempts to quash corporate fraud within U.S. companies through the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the cost and the frequency of expense reporting scams since 2002 have increased,...

United Airlines this week will begin a phased-in expansion of its PerksPlus midsize company program to 36 new cities in the United States and Canada, following a six-month period in which more than