New hires and promotions throughout the meetings and hospitality industry.
If all goes according to plan, the hotly debated merger between Continental Airlines and United Airlines will take flight early next month. Despite corporate regulations and lawsuits claiming the merger would create a monopoly, unfairly raise prices and jeopardize hundreds of jobs, United and Continental have been given the green light to continue with the [...]
A roundup of hotel openings, new developments and other amenities now available to meeting and event planners, both domestically and internationally.
An annual study of car rental, hotel and meal taxes in the top 50 U.S. travel destinations shows that visitors pay 56 percent more than they would with just general sales taxes. In the worst-case scenarios, the burden is as high as 144 percent.
The study also showed that discriminatory travel taxes and fees imposed on [...]
The latest MPI Business Barometer contains more good news than bad for meeting planners, especially those who work in the United States. The bottom line: Current conditions are better than they were a year ago, according to 61 percent of respondents, but the industry recovery that began in February 2010 after 18 stagnant months has [...]
At least 40 meetings have been canceled in Arizona in the past four months, ever since the state passed a tough new immigration law. But the politician who began the call for an economic boycott has since changed his mind.
In an interview with the Arizona Republic, U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalya (D-Ariz.) said a federal judge’s [...]
A roundup of hotel openings, new developments and other amenities now available to meeting and event planners, both domestically and internationally.
