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Cash for Conventions: 5 CVBs Offer Financial Incentives

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Last week’s issue of Travel Market Report examined how convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs) provide assistance to meeting and event planners, including help with attendance building, marketing and financial incentives. In this issue we will focus more closely on assistance with financial incentives by featuring five CVBs that are putting their money where their mouth is through a variety of cost cutting promotions and discounts.

CVBs: A Meeting Planner’s Secret Weapon

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

If an organization offered to help you with your client’s meeting or incentive program for free and perhaps even contribute up to $20,000 toward your group’s transportation costs, would you ignore it?

Resurgent New Orleans Is Once More a Top Meetings Destination

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

New Orleans’ resurgence as a leading tourism and meeting destination was covered in last week’s issue of Travel Market Report. This boom has not gone unnoticed by the tourism industry, according to Tara Letort, director, Group Communications & Public Relations for the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau, who reported that New Orleans was recently named No. 7 in the Travel and Leisure magazine’s top 10 cities list.

Woodstock Inn Introduces Meetings with a Mission Program

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Woodstock Inn & Resort is introducing Meetings with a Mission, corporate retreat programs designed to foster community responsibility while helping companies meet specific meeting goals.

Hotel Openings, New Ground Transportation Options & More Meetings News

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

News from Sol Melia, W New York, Chicago Marriott, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Omaha Holiday Inn, Riu Hotels & Resorts, Carmel Car & Limo Service, and Carey International

Protecting Your Attendees

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

When you’re dealing with a meeting, you’re also dealing with travel risk management, said Bruce McIndoe, president, iJET Intelligent Risk Systems. Planners need to identify and disclose the risks of the venue and the meeting as well as have a crisis management plan in place.

MeetingApps.com Helps Users Discover New Apps

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

MeetingApps.com is marketing itself as the first on-line portal featuring mobile applications available to international meeting and event professionals.

NBTA, StarCite Announce Strategic Meetings Management Model

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The NBTA Foundation, the research and education arm of the National Business Travel Association (NBTA), in partnership with StarCite, Inc., announced the development of a new model for strategic meetings management programs (SMMP) designed to help companies accurately identify where they stand in the SMMP implementation process and how to progress successfully to the next level.

News from Starwood, the Taj Mahal and More

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A quick overview of openings, re-brandings, industry events and other meetings and incentives news.

New Orleans on the Rebound

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

New Orleans is officially back and ready for your meetings business, according to Nikki Nicholson, the vice president of Convention Sales at the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau. Despite the after-effects of Hurricane Katrina, the subsequent levee breaks, and the rumors of damage from the BP oil spill, the city’s hotel occupancy is only 6% behind where it was in 2005.

New “Ideation” Meeting Space, and other MICE news

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

News on the meetings front includes an ideation room designed to promote creativity, the opening of registration for the 2010 Site International Conference to be held this December in Cape Town, and hotel updates.

Minimizing Meeting Risk

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

“Risk management is not really another thing to do. It should be integrated into everything you already do,” Tyra Hilliard told a packed room at a panel discussion on Event Risk Management at the recent NBTA Conference in Houston.

Avoid Common Meeting Planning Mistakes

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

What would you do if the hotel you had contracted with for a block of rooms for your upcoming meeting hadn’t actually built them yet? That was just one of the dilemmas that planners faced and recounted during a recent Webinar entitled “Avoiding the Top Meeting Mistakes and How to Fix Them,” paneled by three industry veterans: Jan Hennessey CMP CMM, the owner of Jan Hennessey Events; Jackie Klein of Vintage Industry Professionals Network; and Mimi Almeida, the president of All Performance Associates LLC.

Planning an Epic Cruise Meeting

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

With the debut of Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL’s) 4100-passenger Epic, planners have a new venue for planning meetings and incentives at sea. Travel Market Report recently spoke to Patrick Mitchell, the vice president Global Sales Strategy and Planning for NCL, to find out how the company plans to market the ship for meetings and incentives.