All posts by Michael Bassett

Attendees want more networking events and less content (something they can always get online).

As we are in the midst of a strong seller’s market, some planners feel as if they’ve become very junior members of a partnership with hotel sales managers who no longer need their business the way they did a few years ago. It’s making them a bit peevish as they wonder whether hotel sales managers are doing all they can to win their business.

As we head into 2014, one of the big issues facing medical meeting planners is the introduction of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act.

If there’s one thing that’s constant about Las Vegas, it’s that it’s always changing. Long known as the country’s gaming mecca, today the city is just one of many gambling destinations in the U.S. — a motivating force for Las Vegas to constantly reinvent itself.

Meeting planners are always looking to plan the perfect program. Yet, chances are, something will always go wrong.

Gaming resorts offer meeting attendees the best of both worlds — the excitement of the casino action combined with the relaxation and recreational options afforded by resort hotels.

As far as conference designer and facilitator Adrian Segar is concerned, everything having to do with traditional meetings has changed over the last decade or so. For example, potential meeting attendees don’t need to fly across the country to listen to someone speak — they can watch that speaker online. Add in the fact that […]

With the economy slowly, but surely, expanding, corporate executives seem to be putting more emphasis on sales and training meetings in 2013.

There’s little question Generation Y or millennials are transforming the way we work — and the way we meet — and organizations are starting to realize they need to understand the preferences of these younger workers.

“Orlando was built on imagination,” says George Aguel, the president and CEO of Visit Orlando. “And it’s constantly re-inventing itself to remain a top-ranked destination among professionals.”