June 1, 2003
Cover Story
Coping with the Fear Factor
A DEVASTATING $5 MILLION potential loss wasn't the deciding factor in the American Library Association's decision in mid-May to go ahead with its June...
First
Auditing Key to Success?
Are independent audits the key to keeping exhibitor interest in a tough marketplace for show organizers? That's the belief of the Computer Event Marketing...
Free Fall for Airlines
I've never, in my 30 years in the industry, seen anything as bad as what we're going through now, says Darryl Jenkins, director of The Aviation Institute...
AM INDEX: JUNE 2003
Difference in the average cost of a gallon of coffee at hotels in Durham, N.C., and New York City: $45 Average number of meetings booked yearly by an...
Denial in the Meeting Industry
Few meeting professionals we contacted in the weeks before the U.S. invasion of Iraq had done anything to prepare for the war's impact on their business...
ASAE Unburdens Los Angeles
The American Society of Association Executives plans to relocate its 20005 annual meeting, originally scheduled for Los Angeles, and is soliciting bids...
people IN THE NEWS
Cheryl K. Nordstedt, has retired as executive director of The American Academy of Dermatology after 25 years with AAD. She started in 1978 as director...
Changing with the Times
Despite the sporadic pickup of the stock market, technology conferences can expect little reprieve from the buffeting they've suffered over the last 24...
If You're Shy, Here's the Badge for You
The new product, nTAG, can work as a networking tool, polling device, attendee tracker, and even a digital ticket for invitation-only events. Launched...
Solutions
No ImpactYet
For the last week of April 2002 there were 25,120 fewer U.S. domestic flights operated, compared with the same time period in 2001, according to OAG,...
What Do Women Golfers Need?
Women are taking up golf in greater numbers than ever before. Between 2000 and 2001 alone, the number of women golfers rose from 5 million to more than...
Air Travel Tactics
Destinations that were easily accessible by air may now be two or more transfers away. Cities that had a daylong schedule of flights may now have only...
Features
Visa Rules Crimp Shows
ATTENDANCE AT LAST YEAR'S CONEXPO-CON/AGG in Las Vegas was down from 1999's record 120,000, but where we took it on the chin was on the international...
Headquarters Hotels
CITY, COUNTY, AND EVEN STATE governments often help to finance convention centers because the payback to local businesses, hotels, and the economy is...
Commentary
Bad Weather Blues
Everybody is still pretty much waiting for the big ball to drop the much-delayed economic rebound is giving even Allen Greenspan agita. Meanwhile, the...
Letters to the Editor
February Cover Story Hits Home The cover story of the February issue (Exhibitors Cry Ouch!, page 18) was of great interest to me, so much so that I faxed...
Calculating the Cost of Fear
The economic damage caused by SARS could approach $100 billion, making it one of the costliest diseases to emerge in a decade, according to Bio Economic...
Beyond Duct Tape
Only a year and a half ago we were collectively stunned by terrorist attacks. And nothing in the travel, meeting, and hospitality industries will ever...
back of the house
HOPE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED Making Lemonade What do you do about a terrible job market for meeting planners? For Pat Schaumann the answer was to launch Current...
Special Section
A BRIGHTER IDEA?
Understanding the ABCs of AMCs A few years ago, staff at nonprofit organizations might have asked, What's an AMC? Today, in the age of outsourcing, the...
Sites
Meetings in a Down Economy
Our business has always been only association business, says John Siciliano, executive director of the Wildwoods Convention Center in Wildwoods, N.J....
New Centers Open Around the Country
After more than two years of construction, the newly expanded Oregon Convention Center in Portland opened April 18. The facility has doubled in size,...
Pittsburgh's Center Goes Green
Pittsburgh's new David L. Lawrence Convention Center is not one of the centers opening across the country with little business booked. Although the grand...
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