IAEM, CEIR, SISO Call for Unity
Exhibition association leaders IAEM, CEIR, and SISO outlined their position on the importance of pulling together after the September 11 tragedy in a joint letter....
ASAE Moves Meeting To New York
The board of directors of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) decided to support New York City’s recovery efforts by moving its November meeting from Buenos Aires to the Big Apple....
ASAE Moves Meeting To New York
The board of directors of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) decided to support New York City’s recovery efforts by moving its November meeting from Buenos Aires to the Big Apple....
Should You Cancel?
The American Society of Association Executives (www.asaenet.org) held an audioconference on September 21 to address the cancellation issues arising from the tragedy. Along with legal and insurance advice, the audioconference included a walk-through of how one association came to the decision about whether or not to cancel a meeting scheduled for October....
ASAE Hold Audioconference on Cancellation Issues
The American Society of Association Executives (www.asaenet.org) held an audioconference on September 21 to address the cancellation issues arising from the tragedy. Along with legal and insurance advice, the audioconference included a walk-through of how one association came to the decision about whether or not to cancel a meeting scheduled for October....
NY Restaurant Association Brings Help to the Table
"Our association has been inundated with phone calls—the first calls were our members asking how they could help," says Rick Sampson, president, New York State Restaurant Association, Albany, N.Y....
"I Was Just Doing My Job"
Cleveland-based independent planning firm Conferon Inc. was actually running a 250-person meeting for the National Association of Business Economists (NABE) in the Marriott World Trade Center when the attack occurred on September 11. "It was a meeting planner’s worst nightmare," says Blake Hobbs, who was running the event for Conferon....
Some Convention Centers Seeing Minimal Impact on Bookings
Chicago’s McCormick Place and the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle are rebounding with hardly a bounce from the September 11 tragedy....
NYC Hotel Update
The status of hotels in World Trade Center area as of 9/21/01:...
CIC Says Majority of Conventions Will Continue
The Convention Industry Council says that anxiety about traveling isn’t stopping people from getting back to business—including attending meetings, conventions, and exhibitions, which were a $96.4 billion industry last year....
Terrorism Preparedness Guidance Available
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) last May published a new terrorism preparedness planning guidance for state and local governments. Much of the information also is useful for meeting planners seeking guidance on developing risk management, contingency planning, and disaster control plans for their meetings and conventions....
NEMOA Cancels Conference; DMers Jittery About Travel
Industry conferences and classes have been cancelled following last weeks terrorist attacks on the U.S. and nerves are frayed as direct marketers make travel plans for the Direct Marketing Association's annual conference next month....
AIM Proceeds With Denver Event
The Association for Interactive Media is holding its Denver Interactive Marketing Forum next Tuesday, as previously scheduled. The forum was planned when the September Net.Marketing conference was cancelled because of a low number or registrants....
StarCite, CIC Team Up to Support Industry
The Convention Industry Council and Web-based technology and services provider StarCite have teamed up in a joint initiative called "Operation Cancellation Rescue."...
Associations Take Action
Many associations were in the forefront of the action immediately following the attack on the World Trade Center towers on September 11. Here are just a few who leant a hand—not to mention a tugboat....
FAA Explains New Airport Guidelines
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, new airline security measures have been put into effect in the wake of last week’s tragedy....
PricewaterhouseCoopers Revises Lodging Forecast
PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that revenue per available room (revPAR) for 2001 will decline 3.5 to 5.0 percent, the worst performance in the 33 years for which data is available. RevPAR had actually increased 3.6 percent in the first quarter, before a slide to a 3.6 percent decrease in the second quarter. The decline for the second half of the year is forecast in the 7 to 10 percent range....
Understanding "Force majeure"
Many planners are scrambling to understand force majeure clauses and their potential impact on future meeting cancellations. Industry attorney Tyra Hilliard, with the Atlanta-area firm Sumner & Associates, P.C., explains what it's all about....
Industry Associations Offer Outpouring of Support
According to the Convention Industry Council shortly after the attacks of September 11, here’s how some of the industry associations responded....
Understanding "Force majeure"
Many planners are scrambling to understand force majeure clauses and their potential impact on future meeting cancellations. Industry attorney Tyra Hilliard, with the Atlanta-area firm Sumner & Associates, P.C., explains what it's all about....
To Cancel or Not to Cancel
News of meeting cancellations, especially for those scheduled for the weeks following the tragedy, is everywhere. Should you cancel your meeting?...
New York Fights Back
Association Meetings spoke with Terry Dale, executive vice president, and Nell Barrett, senior vice president, communications, NYC & Company, just days after the attack to get the convention and visitors bureau’s inside perspective on how New York City pulled together to handle the September 11 crisis. And how it plans to face the challenges to come....
Amidst the Rubble, Compassion
As the nation watched the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon on September 11, paralyzed with horror, people in hotels, convention and visitors bureaus, and virtually every other segment of the meetings, hospitality, and travel industries wiped their eyes and went to work to do what they could to help the victims, the rescuers, and those stranded by the closure of all U.S. airspace....
To Cancel or Not to Cancel
News of meeting cancellations, especially for those scheduled for the weeks following the tragedy, is everywhere. Should you cancel your meeting?...
Hotels Announce Post-9/11 Cancellation Policies
Most major hotel chains have announced a relaxation of their cancellation policies in light of the September 11 tragedy....
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