Hilton Expands Small Meetings Program May 13, 2008 Hilton Hotels today expanded a program of personalized services for small-sized meetings of under 50 attendees called Hilton Meetings to properties throughout North America.
TelePresence System Adds Features May 12, 2008 Cisco has unveiled two new environments for its TelePresence remote conferencing tool. One is a personal system for use in individual offices, and the other is a larger TelePresence room aimed at group training and cross-functional team meetings.
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.
Counting Change Financial services companies hold steady on events, but are keeping a closer watch in the economic crisis
Pre-Event: Resolving the Risk Management Problem You hire a bus to transport event attendees from one function to another; a snowstorm creates havoc on the roadways and the bus spins out of control. Whose job is it to handle the fallout?
MEETING PACKAGE: New Orleans' Marriott Hotels Offer Vouchers he properties are offering meeting attendees a fun and authentic taste of the city by supplying vouchers to well-known N'awlins restaurants, tickets to sip on some traditional Nola cocktails, all-day streetcar passes, free hotel stays and more. Valid for meetings between June 1 and December 31, 2008.
MEETING PACKAGE: Loews Regency Helps Planners Lighten Their Load The 353-room hotel has partnered with DHL to offer complimentary roundtrip overnight shipping of luggage and meeting materials for planners who hold a meeting in the hotel_s newly renovated 4,400 sf of meeting space before September 1.
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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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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