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Cover Story
No Big Easy Answers
HOW DO YOU sell a convention city that has been shut down by one of the worst natural disasters in American history? How do you sell a convention center...
Blown Away
NEARLY A THOUSAND meetings were held in New Orleans last year and those are just the ones tracked by the city's convention bureau. (An estimated 44 percent...
Rising Risk, Rising Costs
Katrina, a 140-mile-per-hour hurricane that hit a three-state area (Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi) could end up being the most expensive catastrophe...
Without Precedent
John S. Foster, Esq., CHME, and his firm, Foster, Jensen & Gulley, LLC, Atlanta, Ga., represent several hundred meeting and convention professionals nationwide....
Impossible or Impractical?
Definition of Legal Terms Performance obligations in a contract can be discharged if performance by one or both parties has been rendered or commercially...
Stranded at the Hilton
On the 17th floor of the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Jennifer Frenette huddled in the bathroom as Hurricane Katrina howled outside. You could hear the...
Shreveport Helps Out, Carries On
Shortly after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast and New Orleans, officials at the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau got a call from...
First
CIC Study Touts Industry's Economic Clout
Meetings, conventions, exhibitions, and incentive travel generated $122.3 billion in direct spending in the United States last year, according to the...
Exhibition Industry: More Good News from CEIR
With growth in attendance, net square footage of exhibition space, exhibitors, and revenue, the exhibition industry showed signs of recovery in 2004,...
AM INDEX: OCTOBER 2005
Increase in gas price from June '04 to July '05:...
EMERGING TRENDS: Marketing Is King for Convention Groups
What emerging trends are profoundly affecting the meetings and convention market? Panelists at the annual meeting of the Destination Marketing Association...
DMAI Draws Record Crowd
Destination Marketing Association International capped a year of change with a record-breaking attendance of 1,000 registrants at its annual meeting in...
The Wages of Work: It Pays to Be Male
If you're in meeting planning for the money, it helps to be a guy with lots of experience working for a corporation. You probably could have guessed that...
Solutions
Meeting Evaluation Technologies (2005)
To measure is to know. These are the words of Lord Kelvin, 19th-century mathematical physicist. Another of his quotable phrases: If you cannot measure...
Why You Need an Audit Clause
SAMPLE CLAUSE: Audit If Hotel shows that the Group has picked up less than 80 percent of the contracted room block, Hotel agrees to perform an audit before...
5 Tips for Picking a Great Speaker
Choose a speaker who will grab your audience's attention. There's a lot to consider. Look for a speaker who uses music, art, and/or props; wears your...
Commentary
Letters to the Editor
Turnaround Artist Hits the Mark The article on how Nancy Berg re-created the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Turnaround Artist, August 2005, page...
Unimaginable Images
In the course of four short years, two unimaginable images have burned themselves into the minds of millions of Americans, images that have radically...
Special Section
JW Marriott Ihilani
THE TRIP TO Hawaii inevitably brings on jet lag, but it's wonderful to wake at 5 a.m. for a soak in a huge whirlpool, followed by a sunrise walk along...
INNER CIRCLE 2005 Award Winners
Welcome to our special section highlighting notable convention centers as well as convention and visitors bureaus and tourist boards containing essential...
Sites
Stunning Phase One Hits Virginia Beach
In August, the $202.5 million Virginia Beach Convention Center opened its first phase of construction. It now offers 300,000 square feet of space, including...
Rancho Bernardo Inn
For decades, this tranquil golf resort 30 minutes from San Diego International Airport has been popular for executive retreats and small association meetings....
Hartford's Triumphant Triumvirate
You'd have thought the city had just won the bid for the Olympics, that's how happy Hartford's city and state fathers and mothers were in late August...
Fairmont Orchid
THE BIG ISLAND of Hawaii, the largest in the Hawaiian chain, contains about 23 of the world's 30 ecosystems. The landscape, dominated by two dormant volcanoes,...
Back of the House
Gaylord on Ice
While they may not see snow, three Gaylord properties in the southern U.S. will become winter wonderlands this winter. The Gaylord Palms, Kissimmee, Fla.,...
London Calling
Eyes closed, you'll swear you are at a live concert with Johnny Cash, Ozzy Osbourne, Garth Brooks, Kermit the Frog, and Elvis. Open your eyes and you're...
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