The May cover of MPI’s member magazine, One+, highlights the feature story titled, “Hosted Buyer is Here to Stay.” The story focuses on the idea that hosted buyer-type programs seem to be transforming America’s meeting landscape much as they have done for the previous two decades in E
This year’s VenueConnect will be July 27-30, in New Orleans, LA. The conference will be an opportunity for venue managers from all venue types to gather fresh ideas and many useful resources to ‘take back’ to their facilities to increase revenue, work smarter and see an immediate retu
Excitement in his voice comes quite naturally to actor, humanitarian and New Orleans native Wendell Pierce when he talks about his home town. Make that when he talks about anything that is New Orleans. Want to know where to go to hear some good jazz any night of the week? Pierce can t
According to the Convention Industry Council, on average, 205 million people in the United States attend the 1.8M conventions, conferences, congresses, trade shows and exhibitions, incentive events and corporate/business meetings each year. Face-to-face meetings build trust and relati
We have so many new and exciting things in store for VenueConnect 2012, July 21 – 24 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida! This is my first annual conference as President and CEO of IAVM; myself, John Bolton, VenueConnect Chair, the programming committee and IAVM staff have been hard at work c