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• Is Your Attendee Registration Data Protected from Identity Theft?
• Shanghai's World Expo: International Event Game-Changer?
• How Empty Middle Seats Made It To The Endangered Species List
• Meetings Today: Cancellations Slowing
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Is your Attendee Registration
Data Protected from Theft? |
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Event organizers are responsible for protecting their member’s and attendee’s email addresses and credit card information from the threat of theft and hackers. In this article from IAEE’s E2 newsletter, Experient client Shawn Pierce of Hanley Wood Exhibitions is quoted on the imminence of such attacks. Click here to read the entire article.
Did you know Experient is PCI Compliant and audited to prove it? The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of requirements designed to ensure that anyone that processes, stores or transmits credit card information maintains a secure environment. Experient EventXL registration and housing platform is not only self-audited, but PCI compliance is verified by an independent third-party auditing firm. For more information on how you can protect your organization from the liability of having a member’s or attendee’s sensitive data stolen, click here. |
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Shanghai's World Expo: "Something between a trade fair... and a template for global domination" |
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Shanghai appears to be winning in the conference and exhibitions stakes, so says a recent issue of The Economist magazine. With the recent Olympics and now the World Expo under its belt, China has invested tens of billions of dollars of spending on infrastructure improvements. Click here to read the article and the blog comments with speculation of how Shanghai, which opened another 100 hotels to accommodate World Expo’s 70M visitors, will fare as it competes with Beijing and other world cities for meetings, incentives, conferences and events. |
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Rare Species: Emtpy Middle Seats on Flights |
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A sidebar in the April 19 issue of Business Travel News has the inside story on why we rarely benefit from the luxury of an empty middle seat on flights these days:
"Demonstrating their capacity discipline in 2009, domestic airlines last year served the fewest passengers since 2004, but recorded the most crowded planes ever, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics. BTS said nearly 40M fewer domestic and international passengers took to the skies on U.S carriers last year than in 2004, making the lowest annual total since 2004. However, thanks to dramatic year-over-year capacity cuts of 6.3 percent in 2009 for domestic and international services, the U.S. industry's aggregate 81.1 percent annual load factor was the highest on record." |
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Meeting Cancellations Slow, but
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Author Michael B. Baker’s article in www.btnonline.com finds that while “event cancellations have slowed in recent months… analysts caution this is more a function of a shift in meeting habits than a robust rebound of group travel. Additionally, hoteliers are pushing a harder line in negotiations, becoming less likely to give the cancellation and attrition leeway they gave last year.” Click here to read more findings generated by a survey of 220 corporate and association planners. |
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