February 1, 2004
Cover Story
2004 Job Market FIELD GUIDE
It took meeting planner Barbara Martin six months to find a job after losing her longtime position with a trade association in Washington, D.C. She finally...
Heeding Auntie Mame
More and more people in the meeting industry are reevaluating their careers as just one element in an overall balance in their lives. Unfortunately, society...
First
They Want Your Business
Online travel reservation companies are very interested in partnering with associations, said Travelocity founder Terry Jones at the Professional Convention...
PCMA Launches New Initiatives
Several new initiatives were kicked off at the 48th annual meeting of the Professional Convention Management Association, held mid-January in Indianapolis....
AM INDEX: FEBRUARY 2004
Hotel occupancy percentage forecast for 2004, which would be the highest since 2000: 61.2%...
When Two Is Greater Than Four
If a proposal announced in January comes to fruition, four nonprofit organizations for association executives will be consolidated into two. The Center...
Advantage, Hotels
With the lodging industry headed toward recovery from its three-year slump, hotel rates are likely to increase in 2004, according to Bjorn Hanson, global...
Questions About Fingerprinting
Starting in January, foreign visitors traveling to the U.S. are being photographed and fingerprinted at 115 domestic airports and 14 seaports as part...
Merged at Last: Attendee and Guest Lists
For years, planners have scratched their heads wondering why hotels could not cross-check an electronic list of their meeting attendees against the hotel's...
Vail Boardroom Named After Housekeeper
It's not unusual for hotels and organizations to name boardrooms after past presidents, famous Americans, or top company executives. The Antlers at Vail...
Solutions
Negotiating with Spas
It's not news that spa services now rival golf as a must-have activity for high-end meetings. The question is: Are popular treatments such as massages,...
Choose Your Own Vendors
CLAUSE: Group will not be required to use Facility's in-house, exclusive, or preferred contractors or vendors for services such as audiovisual, security,...
20 Tips for Finding an Affordable Meeting Site
Deals for the Budget-minded Meeting Planner...
Features
bandwidth boom
TALK TO THE RESIDENT GEEK IN A CONVENTION CENTER'S tech support group long enough, and you're bound to hear something like this: We have the scalable...
Q&A: ONLINE REGISTRATION
$^1???ti>Few people understand online meeting registration systems or most meeting technologies, for that matter as well as Jeff Rasco, president of Attendee...
Commentary
A Question of Esteem
We asked our new staffer, upon returning from his first industry meeting, what his perceptions were of the meeting planning field. This seasoned newspaper...
Letters to the Editor
One Angry Guy Hallelujah! I just read your December Editor's Note [Members Come First, page 8]. Now that I can learn all I need to know about the mission...
Special Section
Association Meetings 2003 Inner Circle Award Winners
Congratulations! Kudos to all 50 winners in our 12th annual Inner Circle Award program. This tribute is paid by AM readers, who voted for these top hotels,...
Sites
Grand Opening in Grand Rapids
The $211 million DeVos Place convention center opened its doors in December, encompassing a total area of one million square feet in the heart of Grand...
Marriott Waikiki
Talk about a room with a view. From my 18th-floor balcony I could survey an enormous expanse of placid Pacific waters, the full sweep of Waikiki Beach,...
Kiawah Island, S.C.
Are you a meeting planner who's been longing for a fresh East Coast destination with world-class everything: oceanfront hotel, golf, spa, beach, water...
Tropicana Casino & Resort
The sultry, exotic side of Havana is making its way to the Atlantic City Boardwalk in the form of a $245 million, grand-scale dining, entertainment, retail,...
Back of the House
What's in a Name? Maybe Free Comedy
Calling all Thomas Fosters, John Shaws, Barbara Halls, and Leslie Saunders. If your association books a meeting in Toronto this year, it might win free...
PowerPoint Art, Talking-Heads-Style
David Byrne, former lead singer of the Talking Heads band, has a new creative outlet. Byrne has actually found a way to make PowerPoint presentations...
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