
Wednesday,October 28th, 2009
By Gary Schirmacher CMP
Recently it was brought to my attention that a client removed a hotel from their short list for a 2014 annual meeting location due to numerous negative comments posted regarding that property on Trip Advisor. It’s my impression Trip Advisor is a tool used more often by leisure and transient travelers, than by [...]

Monday,October 26th, 2009
By Michael M McCurry, CMP
Depending on who you talk to, or which news channel you are following, there is chatter that our country is emerging from the recession… I wonder which dial or meter validates this magical news!!?? Reality is you can’t flip a switch and announce our world is no longer in economic turmoil. There are [...]

Friday,October 23rd, 2009
By Rick Binford
Seems hard to believe that it has now been more than a full year since our industry first began to see meetings cancel and meeting attendance shrink -and what a year it has been!
All across our industry, we have scrambled to adapt as quickly as possible “a new normal” of fewer events, fewer [...]

Tuesday,October 20th, 2009
By Karen Watson, CMP
This article seemed timely, since I’m headed out tomorrow for the first city of five in our e4 site selection process for 2010 and 2011. So I’ll be in lots of airports over the next 4-5 weeks, and of course I had to read this and be guilted over my favorite airport snack [...]

Monday,October 5th, 2009
By Karen Watson, CMP
It’s tough these days designing content delivery that will meet the needs of an audience that crosses multiple generations.
Generations that remember watching TV when there were only 3 channels and having to stand up and walk to the TV if you wanted to change the channel…so you really must have wanted to change [...]