Gaylord to Build Convention Resort in Mesa, Ariz.
Gaylord Entertainment, owner of such properties as Nashville’s sprawling Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center and the just-opened Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Maryland on the Potomac River, has announced plans to build a resort and convention hotel at the Mesa Proving Grounds in Mesa, Ariz. ...
ASAE to Develop Principles for Social Responsibility
The American Society of Association Executives and The Center for Association Leadership continues its work on social responsibility...
No Pyramids in Columbus
Experience Columbus, the convention and visitors bureau of Columbus, Ohio, has launched an unusual new marketing campaign—you might be even call it counterintuitive...
Winds of Change
I watched with sick fascination as Hurricane Gustav blew in last weekend, threatening to once again flood New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas and causing the Republican National Convention to severely curtail its opening activities on Monday...
Hotel Industry Posts Gains Despite Lower Occupancies
Despite a downturn in occupancy levels, U.S. hotels posted increases in both average daily rate and revenue per available room for the month of July, according to Smith Travel Research....
ASAE and The Center Diversify
At its annual meeting last week, ASAE and The Center for Association Leadership put some action behind the 2008 diversity initiative announced at last year’s conference by opening the meeting with a panel of diversity experts...
APEX Amps Up Event Management Offering with New Powershop
The Convention Industry Council’s Accepted Practices Exchange initiative has launched APEX Powershop, a hosted software application designed to help meeting planners submit RFPs more efficiently. ...
Sarfati to Launch D.C. Speakers Bureau Office
Susan Sarfati, the outgoing CEO of The Center for Association Leadership and executive vice president at the American Society of Association Executives, will join the Boston-based speakers bureau, The American Program Bureau, starting September 1. ...
Report from MPI-WEC 2008, Las Vegas
Bruce MacMillan, CA, president and CEO of Meeting Professionals International, welcomed a record-breaking audience of more than 4,300 attendees to MPI’s World Education Congress at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas during Sunday’s opening general session. ...
Lost Laptop Leads to Halt in RT Enrollments
The Transportation Security Agency has prohibited Verified Identity Pass Inc., the operator of the Clear Registered Traveler program, from enrolling new RT customers after a computer laptop containing the unencrypted personal information of 33,000 RT enrollees went missing last month. ...
Baltimore Launches Convention and Tourism Board
Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon created a new governing body, the Baltimore Convention and Tourism Board...
Hotel Occupancy Rates Fall in First Half
Hotel room occupancy rates slipped 2.6 percent to 61.4 percent in the first half of the year compared to the same time period last year...
Airline Crisis Front and Center for Destinations
“The economy isn’t going to get much better in the next year,” said William A. Hanbury, president and CEO of Destination DC, and chair of Destination Marketing Association International....
A Buyer’s Market? Or Are Sellers Still in Control?
Early in July, the hospitality industry was rocked by Marriott International’s announcement that second-quarter profits fell by 24 percent and that revenue per available room, or RevPar, would decrease by 1 percent in the United States in 2008. ...
Tom Norwalk Takes the Helm of Seattle CVB
Tom Norwalk has been named president and CEO of the Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau, effective July 25...
StarCite Appoints New CEO
Meetings management technology provider StarCite has appointed Gregory J. Dukat as its new chief executive officer...
Diversity a Focus at ASAE Annual Meeting
The importance, and challenges, of fostering diversity in associations will be a keynote topic at the American Society of Association Executives annual meeting, coming up August 16 to 19 at the San Diego Convention Center...
Airlines Call For Limits on Oil Speculators
Thanks to pressure from a coalition led by the Air Transport Association, a bill has been introduced in Congress that would limit excessive speculation by investors, which, the coalition says, is responsible for some of the increase in oil costs, driving up prices $20 to $60 per barrel. ...
Webinars, Forum Precede MPI’s World Education Conference
Meeting Professionals International is introducing some changes with this year’s World Education Congress, starting with the way attendees prepare for the event....
IAEE Creates Air Transportation Task Force
Citing an air-travel environment that has reached crisis proportions, the board of directors of the International Association of Exhibitions and Events voted to create the Air Transportation Crisis Task Force, charged with examining and anticipating key air travel issues that will affect meetings and events, and recommending best practices on how members can deal with these challenges. ...
Hotel Development Overseas
There’s no sign of a slow-down in the development of hotels overseas. Here is a sampling...
Registered Traveler Company Courts Meetings Market; Atlanta Picks Clear
On June 12, FLO Corp., a Registered Traveler enrollment provider, announced a new a distribution agreement with Advantage Performance Network, a meetings, incentives, and corporate travel company headquartered in Savage, Minn. Six days later, FLO had more news: another partnership, this time with Universal Meeting Management Inc., a meetings management company located in Raleigh, N.C. ...
IAEE Considers Expulsion of a Member
The International Association of Exhibitions and Events is considering expelling one of its members for allegedly soliciting members to book hotel rooms for IAEE Expo! Expo! without being the official housing bureau. ...
MPI Announces 2008-2009 International Board of Directors
The Meeting Professionals International 2008-2009 Board of Directors assumed their new roles on July 1....
New Green Meeting Association and Certification Launched
The newly formed Association for Green Meetings & Events has developed the first certification for planners and suppliers interested in greening their meetings: The Certification in Green Meetings and Events. The 25-hour certification process will be launched at the association’s first meeting August 24 to 27 in Long Beach, Calif....
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