Providing on-line business information, namely descriptions of the products and services of others and bench mark data in the field of meeting consolidation and planning via a global computer network; online advertising services, namely providing advertising space on a web site to promote the products and services of others via a global computer network; on-line business consultation services in the fields of event planning and meeting consolidation and planning, namely, event planning, event scheduling, event budgeting, event purchasing, event data analysis and tracking, supplier opportunity brokering, international event resource, event program development, meeting and event registration services, tracking event participant registration data, tracking and leveraging of supplier purchasing, tracking event logistics and inventory, venue researching, post event supplier invoice auditing, billing reconciliation, negotiating and contracting services via a global computer network