June 2, 2002

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Shuffling the Deck

Bridge may seem like a simple card game to the uninitiated, but once you're hooked, you may find yourself doing some extreme things. For Bill Gates, it...

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The Name Badge of the Future Is Here

Humans are social animals. We love to mingle at meetings and trade shows, to network and share ideas. But the tools used to facilitate that networking...

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Getting the Squeeze

With business and leisure travel still in a slump, a potential oversupply of convention centers looming in some markets, and financing for needed new...

GETTING THE SQUEEZE

Mayors and local governments are looking for reasons and possible scapegoats for lower-than-forecast visitor numbers and convention center bookings. Some...

HQ Hotel Update

The financial squeeze on major hotel projects that serve as convention center headquarters hotels isn't limited to Boston and L.A. Just weeks before the...

First Year Club Launches in D.C.

On April 3, members of Washington, D.C.'s First Year Club were treated to a sneak preview of Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years, at the Corcoran...

TOUGH MARKET

Citing a declining attendance and exhibitor presence, the American Hotel & Lodging Association recently decided to can a 90-year-old tradition the AH&LA's...

MARKET DOWNSIZING

While the National Association of Television Program Executives, based in Los Angeles, recently confirmed that its 2003 annual convention would go on...

A New Kind of Rocky Mountain High

The groundbreaking of the Colorado Convention Center Expansion set a Guinness World Record when 1,260 people participated in the dig to begin construction...

Badge of Honor

If your attendee-control system starts and ends with the bored security personnel at the exhibit hall entrance, beware: Meeting security expectations...

SALARY NEWS

A surprising result came out of the recent 13th Edition of the Association Executive Compensation and Benefits Study, conducted by American Society of...

RCMA 2002 Breaks Records

Willie Jolley presented the keynote speech at the Religious Conference Management Association's 30th Anniversary Conference and Exposition, held in January...

SHORT TAKES

IACVB Launches New Study: The International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus, Washington, D.C., has launched a new Convention and Expenditure...

NO SWEAT

Remember those energy surcharges that swept the hospitality community last summer? As promised, they quietly disappeared last fall as energy prices dropped...

CORRECTION noted

The second paragraph of the South-Central site file on page 105 of the April issue should have read: The 52,000-square-foot Crown Center Exhibit Hall...

While Waiting for the Recovery

It has been a challenging fall and winter for the meeting industry: the September 11 tragedy, a recession, and the continuing threat of terrorism. It...

What's Up with the Airlines?

It started in March when Delta cut travel agency commissions for tickets sold in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. By the end...

Crash Course!

1 Getting the Best Deal Knowing what makes a piece of business good for a golf course will help you get the best event for the best price. The specs that...

Take a Second Look

Meeting planner Suzette Eaddy remembers a particularly pleasurable convention experience. The city was centrally located for members; it was affordable,...

A New Dimension for Callaway

Callaway Gardens, a sprawling resort and garden complex an hour's drive from Atlanta International Airport, will mark its 50th anniversary with the September...

Safari Comes to Wisconsin

Kalahari Resort & Convention Center, Wisconsin Dells, Wis., will open an additional 138,000 square feet of accommodations this month. The $12 million...

Arts and Culture San Diego Style

San Diego has long since shed its reputation as that sleepy Navy town just north of Tijuana, but meeting and incentive organizers who haven't visited...

Voluntary National Standards and Accreditation

Accreditation is a procedure by which an authoritative body gives formal recognition that an organization or person is competent to carry out specific...

Show Trends Make Forecasting Tough

The exhibition industry, like many others, is having trouble predicting the future. Unlike other industries, however, we've never had to deal with this...

Transitioning to an AMC

There are many reasons to transfer management responsibilities to an association management company. But whatever the reason, you have to do your homework to find the right AMC to partner with, because all AMCs are not equal....

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