Visa Offers Meetings Card with Arcaneo May 16, 2008 In response to growth in global spending on meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions, Visa Inc. yesterday announced the addition of the Visa Meetings card to its suite of commercial payment solutions to help businesses more strategically manage this expense category.
The Broadmoor Chooses Passkey for Group Bookings May 16, 2008 The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs announced that it has selected Passkey, a facilitator for online group reservations, as their preferred group booking engine.
Personal Success: Taking the Spa Home By and large, a great massage is no longer sufficient, as spa experiences go. Now it's often about packages, including multiple treatments, unique extras, or goodies to take home.
Personal Success: The Organized Life Regardless of where it is that you work, creating an effective work environment helps to boost productivity and satisfaction. Here are a few products that will keep you more organized, both at your desk and when you travel for business.
Menu Planning Checklist Whatever the goal of a meeting, it is important that the food be appetizing and the attendees have the opportunity for a little relaxation. But planning a successful dinner or cocktail party for a meeting group is not all fun and games.
MEETING PACKAGE: Art or Jazz at Concorde Hotels & Resorts Concorde Hotels & Resorts is offering meeting planners the perfect combination of business and pleasure with the In the Mood for Art and In The Mood for Jazz amenities at the Hotel du Louvre and Hotel Lutetia in Paris.
Food and beverage events getting costlier & more complex With a weakening economy, the pressure on planners to stretch their budgets in all areas of meeting planning has intensified, and with food and beverage playing such a large role in events, the impact is undeniable. In fact, nearly two-thirds of the almost 400 planners who took part in a recent MeetingNews survey on the topic said that creating successful F&B events has become more of a challenge in the past year.
Planners are loud and clear on internal speaker sourcing The latest MeetingNews survey shows that many meeting planners are sourcing speakers from within their organizations and industries in lieu of outside professionals and those represented by speaker bureaus. The two biggest reasons cited in the 315-planner study are a desire to find experts who can educate on industry-specific issues and cost savings.
Call for strategic vision by planners at a critical time Given the state of the economy, it's no surprise that so many planners responding to the latest MeetingNews survey cited managing budgets and controlling costs as the most complex issue they're facing. Unfortunately, the increased complexity of planners' jobs goes well beyond that. Organizing programs on shorter lead times, improving the quality of meeting content, and managing executives' expectations were the other most cited issues that planners find harder to handle these days.
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MeetingNews - the pulse of the industry, informs and provides resources for all levels of managers and buyers responsible for meetings, conventions, trade shows and incentives about events shaping the industry.
For meeting planners across all industries, Successful Meetings educates and provides resources for all levels of corporate, association and independent meeting managers and buyers about how to create and execute all types of meetings.
MeetingNews - the pulse of the industry, informs and provides resources for all levels of managers and buyers responsible for meetings, conventions, trade shows and incentives about events shaping the industry.
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