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Langham Hotels International Celebrates Partnership with HelmsBriscoe at Exclusive Gathering - ETBMICE

2011-02-02T12:48:00.000-05:00

Langham Hotels International Celebrates Partnership with HelmsBriscoe at Exclusive Gathering - ETBMICE

Industry Events - HelmsBriscoe

2011-01-22T14:21:00.000-05:00

Industry Events - HelmsBriscoe

8 Hotel Brands Offering Meeting Deals - Food & Beverage for Events | Cvent Events

2010-12-22T12:16:00.000-05:00

8 Hotel Brands Offering Meeting Deals - Food & Beverage for Events Cvent Events

HelmsBriscoe Constantly Adding Preferred Hotel Partners!

2009-10-01T02:30:00.000-04:00

Just a few of our industry partners...with over 1,000 associates around the world we can find the property that best fits your corporate or association meeting!

The Facts About Business Travel

2009-10-01T01:56:00.000-04:00

With all of the continuing rhetoric about meetings, it's important to learn a few key facts:

The Facts

Business travel creates 2.4 million jobs nationally. Meetings and events are directly responsible for 1 million jobs.
The U.S. Travel Association estimates that 200,000 travel jobs were lost in 2008 and expects another 247,000 to be lost in 2009
Business travel accounts for $39 billion in tax revenue at the federal, state, and local levels.
Meetings and events are responsible for 15% of all travel-related spending.
Business travel supports more than 200 hotel and convention centers across the country.
According to the results of a Meetings and Conventions magazine study, 52 percent of respondents claim that the backlash against meetings has been extremely or moderately influential on their company’s decisions to hold events.
In a recent survey, 87 percent of Americans say that encouraging people to travel recreationally within the U.S. could improve the country's economic landscape.
Each meeting and event traveler spends an average of $1,000 per trip.
According to a recent survey of Fortune 1,000 Chief Marketing Officers, meetings and events provide the highest return on investment of any marketing channel.

WisBusiness.com

2009-07-20T02:25:00.000-04:00

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Meetings and Events Are Essential Business Functions, Spur Economic Growth

2009-06-28T21:11:00.000-04:00

In adopting a zero-tolerance policy toward suspected corporate excess, policymakers have been demonizing companies for legitimate travel to meetings and events and for rewarding high-performing employees with travel. Handicapping businesses to score political points is shortsighted and erects barriers to recovery.

This type of travel helps companies build relationships, retain and develop employee talent, generate ideas and facilitate knowledge sharing that drives business growth. In a weak economy, doesn’t every company in America need more opportunities to promote recovery and plan for better days?

Trips have also been mischaracterized as CEO junkets. But attendees of incentive program travel, for example, are typically middle-class Americans who have earned travel to reward exceptional work.

Members of Congress who attack corporate meetings and events, yet attend their own yearly retreats should remember that good public policy addresses reality, not rhetoric.

Meetings Mean BUSINESS!

2009-04-02T21:20:00.000-04:00

Meeting participants speak positively about their

experiences:

This information is courtesy of Meetings Mean Business, a website that details the value of meetings, not only to companies, but also to the economy.

When my company hosts a meeting, seminar, or training info session, my job performance benefits tremendously. Meetings are a way to tap into new ideas, generate revenue, and enhance my career.
Christianna S., Virginia

The value of human connections (meetings) is immeasurable. Recently, I chaired a task force of bright, passionate industry experts. We were given a charter and a clear plan of action. The team was dedicated and met weekly for several months, making steady progress against our goal. At the end of our time together, we met for a full day to review the work that had been done. Much to our surprise, the outcomes and recommendations previously agreed to by the team changed significantly once we had a chance to meet in person. Incorporating the knowledge gained through personal interaction we will deliver a much more relevant, meaningful recommendation. This is just a small example of the value of meetings...and of human connections. I think we all know that meetings will continue but the question is at what real cost if they are converted to virtual formats to reduce cost. In addition to the obvious economic value meetings deliver, we need to change our focus from eliminating meetings to measuring the value meetings bring - the effectiveness of meetings. Meetings were conceived to drive growth - now, more than ever before; we should ensure they do just that.
Cindy D., Pennsylvania

There is no substitute for face-to-face meetings. It is absolutely the best facilitation of planning, strategizing and communications. WebEx’s and teleconference are great for interim touch points, but cannot replace the face to face meeting. In projects I have been involved in where we tried to drive entirely through teleconference/WebEx the cost of miscommunication and delays was staggering.
David M., Connecticut

Nothing will ever replace face to face communication. It's a better and more accurate way to collaborate with your clients, as well as your partners and employees. Face to face meetings are vital to sales and marketing efforts. Meetings are just plain good business. Technology is great, but I can't shake hands with it. It can't give someone a reassuring pat on the back, or a smile for a job well done. With all due respect to social networking tools, if all your business is done with e mail, e learning and e networking, you’re going to end up working e lone.
Hugh Q., New York

I am in the meeting and hospitality industry and I see the value of meetings every day; things that cannot be replaced by email or conference calls or video conference. We do not waste our time trying to duplicate things that have no value. Much time and effort is spent on trying to recreate the meeting experience because of the value and effectiveness they have. But nothing can replace shaking of hands and looking into someone’s eyes when you trust them to become part of your team or your business or welcoming them into your family. To dismiss meetings as unimportant is to lose an opportunity to gain real trust between partners of all kinds.
Matt V., Texas

Leadership Roundtable Held in Las Vegas to Discuss Obama's Remarks

2009-03-28T21:15:00.000-04:00

Recently, Successful Meetings and MeetingNews hosted a Leadership Roundtable in Las Vegas at which members of the Las Vegas hospitality community gathered to discuss, among other things, President Obama's comments on holding meetings in Las Vegas. Here's what they had to say

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Malta chosen for HelmsBriscoe annual global forum

2009-03-12T17:15:00.000-04:00

Malta chosen for HelmsBriscoe annual global forum

2007-01-01T03:09:00.000-05:00