PYM Advice & Best Practices
The five principles of meeting design, Part IV: Emphasis
Keeping the emphasis front and center can help create a meeting that attendees and your client rave about.
Boosting ‘Brand You’: How to earn more money and respect
Carolyn has worked at the same company for nearly 15 years and is loyal, reliable and a hard worker. She plans and executes all departmental and client-specific meetings and is an expert with the software tools the company uses. Everyone speaks highly of Carolyn, yet she’s been passed over for promotions.
There’s a meeting planner position [...]
On the presidential agenda: Increase foreign visitors and business travel to the U.S.
America used to be the No. 1 destination for foreign travelers. But since 2000, the United States has lost more than 30 percent of its share of the global travel market.
Last week, President Obama issued an executive order he hopes will reverse that trend. Among the initiatives: Increase nonimmigrant visa processing capabilities for China and [...]
What I learned from catering to queens
I am late (again) with writing this morsel because I just got done doing the food for the Miss California USA beauty pageant. The first thing that should come to everyone’s mind is this question: What am I doing feeding girls that are participating in a beauty contest?! Those girls don’t eat. Well, my dear readers, you are [...]
Industry News
On the presidential agenda: Increase foreign visitors and business travel to the U.S.
New meeting and hospitality industry hires, promotions: January 2012
Visas and visibility: The dual missions of the US Travel Association
New hotels, renovations, expansions and other destination news: January 2012
Planner's Corner
Are you stressed out?
Because if you aren’t, people might talk. After all, being an event organizer is ranked one of CareerCast.com’s Top 10 most stressful jobs for 2012 — right up there with being an enlisted soldier, military general, police officer and firefighter.
With an average salary of $45,260, it’s clear you’re not doing what you do for the [...]
Drinking the Kool-Aid at 2012 PYM LIVE Tampa
The first PYM LIVE Event of the year (#yaypym!) kicked off in Tampa at the Wyndham Tampa Westshore. In addition to an educational session led by Erica Prewett, there were roundtable discussions on the trade show floor — including one that gave planners insight into how hotel sales staff value their business.
Here’s a Storify summary [...]
