Meetings & Conventions magazine, Perfection in Planning!

M&C magazine is the definitive resource for meetings industry news featuring issues and trends, practical how-to features and destination guides for more than 70,000 meeting professionals who plan and book over one million meetings annually. Monthly, 13 issues per year (including the annual Gavel issue).

Since 1965, Meetings & Conventions magazine has been helping meeting and event planners in corporations, associations, incentive houses and independent planning companies excel at their jobs and effectively manage their careers.

In our award-winning monthly print publication and here at M&C Online, we offer in-depth features, informative columns, destination insights, news analysis, original research and much more. And, our new, improved website offers additional tools: an articles archive, a powerful facility search engine, breaking news and other helpful features -- literally at your fingertips.

Read the Digital Issue: Meeting & Convention Magazine, September 2009

35 ON THE COVER:
50 Ways to Trim Your Budget
Planners today are pressed to save money without sacrificing the myriad elements that go into a well-run event. M&C’s editors asked experts throughout the industry for their best advice on doing more with less. The result is a report brimming with costcutting ideas in the realms of ground transportation, food and beverage, speakers, entertainment, A/V, exhibits and more.

49 Calling All Volunteers
When it comes to staffing an event, one of the best ways to cut expenses is to hire hospitality-school students, who are eager to gain experience in the field. Here are ways to find interns for free or at minimal cost, along with tips on how best to use them.

53 Low-Cost Retreats
A group getaway to recharge, team-build and/or brainstorm doesn’t have to be an expensive, glitzy affair. The properties profiled here — working farms, spiritual/wellness retreats and adventure camps — offer repose, activities and meeting facilities at very reasonable rates.

59 What’s Next for Hotels?
Top executives from Fairmont, Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott, Omni and other major hotel chains discuss how they are getting through the recession, its impact on group business and what plans they have to grow their brands when the economy improves.

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> Funding: 10 tips for finding event sponsors
> Intern locator: A guide to hospitality schools
> The online overseer: Software to help you manage the helpers
> In their shoes: Insights from volunteer interns
> Destination guide: Ohio news and venues
> Saddle up: Why dude ranches are great for groups

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