When meetings technology was still in its infancy several years ago, the conventional wisdom held that corporate planners would gravitate to more robust applications with higher capabilities as they...

Rates Down At Last? By Chris Davis There may be relief in sight for corporate meeting planners reeling from negotiating with a weak hand in a scalding hotel seller's market. A new

GSA Scraps Citi One-Card By Lynn Woods The new one-card program that the federal General Services Administration awarded to Citibank represented one of the most innovative of the

Regional Airports Offer More Jets, Less Road Traffic By Robert SelwitzWhile metropolitan New York's three largest airports--Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark--are known worldwide, the

Growing A Mtgs. Module By Chris Davis Cargill Inc., the largest privately held company in the country, hopes to slash 30 percent to 40 percent of meetings expenditures from its $100 million-plus

American Express and IBM earlier this month announced they would jointly develop a low-cost, easily configurable Web-based expense reporting and reconciliation tool. The tool will be hosted by IBM and...

Small Limo Cos. Thrive By Lynn Woods A healthy economy has spurred phenomenal growth and record profits for the big guys in the sedan and limousine industry--the Careys, Dav Els, and BostonCoaches.

B-There Inks Two Deals To Connect IT, RFP Functions By Chris Davis In a $19 million deal designed to increase and streamline the site's booking functionalities and beef up security measures,

NW CEO John Dasburg Talks Service, CompetitionBTN: In recent years, Northwest and Continental seem to have been going in different directions as far as service quality--what will you do to

Macau Builds For Burgeoning Meetings, Incentives Biz By Judy Jacobs While Macau awaits its return to Chinese rule on Dec. 20, the Portuguese-administered territory on the southern