Ethical Meeting Planners 2.23

Our purpose at Ethical Meeting Planners is to create a website where those in the hospitality industry, including suppliers, hotels, destination management companies and convention bureaus can share information about unethical meeting planners. These are folks who attend our costly familiarization programs, with the pretense of learning about our products and services for consideration of future bookings, but never have any intention of giving us business. They do so to have their own jolly little mini-vacation at our expense.

To be fair, most professional planners are honest and refuse to take advantage of our marketing programs designed to showcase our products and services. But during the last ten years, the numbers of dishonest planners has increased significantly, forcing many in the hospitality industry to change their policies regarding familiarization programs.

Although all major hospitality industry trade associations have detailed ethics policies and codes of conduct that outline proper and professional behavior, we continue to lose millions of dollars annually to unethical behavior. If suppliers with these challenges would become part of we can work together and share information about which specific planners are taking advantage of these promotional programs. Then most of these dishonest planners will stop exploiting us, thus saving us all considerable expense. But this requires all suppliers to report accurately occurrences of dishonest planners gaming the system, including the names of the individuals involved.