We recently held our Destination Michigan Thought Leaders luncheons in Lansing and metro Detroit and were able to identify trends in the meetings industry. Technology [...]

Tracy Padot For those of us in the meetings and events industry we know that budgets are shrinking and we’re being asked to [...]

Mark Bondy Recently, at the Michigan Meetings Expo I had the opportunity to facilitate a discussion on Food and Beverage Trends in the [...]

Leslie Blair, CMP For the past three or four years, we’ve been operating in a buyer’s market. That is changing, and as a [...]

Dawn Whitcomb, CMP, Calhoun County Visitors Bureau The Team Building Idea Swap groups shared some great ideas for group activities at the Michigan [...]

Sara Faircloth, Mission Point Resort The topic of “What’s New in Contract Negotiations” is an interesting one as well as ever-changing. It seems [...]

Sherry L. Cummins, CMP, CMM A meetings management strategist must be savvy with contract verbiage and negotiations, return on investment, budgets and accounting, [...]

Aaron D. Wolowiec, MSA, CAE, CMP, CTA Earlier this year, CareerCast released its 2012 Job Stress Report listing meeting planner as the sixth [...]

Let's face it, time is money and today senior management expects meetings, incentives and events to deliver business results. The days are gone where your [...]