Professional Convention Management Association
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Groups Set Standards For Meetings Professionals' Development
… certification, announced it would use the new standards as part of a CMP competencies update. The Professional Convention Management Association indicated it would accordingly revise its CMP Online Prep Course. A next step for MPI will be helping …
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PwC Measures Annual U.S. Meetings Industry Spending At $263B
… allegations of the industry's unimportance. At the behest of Meetings Professionals International, the Professional Convention Management Association , the Convention Industry Council, U.S. Travel Association and several other groups—but not …
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Visions Of Green: Oracle Heralds Eco-Events; Advances Its Quest For Zero-Waste Conference
Oracle Corp. four years ago "started down the road" to greening OpenWorld, its annual software conference for 35,000 to 40,000 delegates. Through steady progress, Oracle in 2009 boosted the conference's sustainability score to 70 (out of 100) from 64 in 2008 and 34 a year earlier, but work
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Hoteliers, Execs Discuss Challenges Ahead For Mtgs., Travel
… technologies and generational shifts are among the challenges that meeting and travel professionals face in 2010, executives from hotel companies, an office services company and association told the Professional Convention Management Association
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Buyers Still Hold Hotel Cards: Program Consolidations Yield Lower 2010 Rates, More Perks
… begin pushing for increases. Loews Hotels chairman and CEO Jonathan Tisch said in January at the Professional Convention Management Association 's 2010 Annual Meeting in Dallas that most hotels financed during better economic times were completed …
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Airline CEOs Content With Current Capacity
… CEO Gerard Arpey and Southwest Airlines president and CEO Gary Kelly during a Monday session at the Professional Convention Management Association 's 2010 Annual Meeting here said the demand outlook remains unclear for the next year and a half …
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ACTE Exec. Director Susan Gurley Resigns
… suppliers expressed their concerns about financially supporting both organizations ( BTNonline , June 22) . In addition to that activity, ACTE's "strategic alliance" with the Professional Convention Management Association fell apart.
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Op-Ed: Business Travel Associations Need Rationalization, Rather Than Duplication
… between suppliers and buyers or other forms of recognizing legitimate differences. ACTE and the Professional Convention Management Association are building an alliance. This recent precedent supports a bolder exploration of a single travel …
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ACTE Leaders Resist NBTA 'Campaign'
… The Association of Corporate Travel Executives this afternoon will announce a partnership with the Professional Convention Management Association for "an innovative approach to doing business that will offer immediate benefits for the convention …
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ACTE, PCMA Form Strategic Alliance
The Association of Corporate Travel Executives and the Professional Convention Management Association today announced the formation of a "strategic alliance." Officials stressed that each association would remain independent entities …
