October 1, 2004
Cover Story
Challenged by Change
IT'S NO PICNIC in the park being a convention and visitors bureau executive these days. In the last 18 months, spending scandals at a handful of bureaus...
First
ASAE Launches Planner Certification
A new certification program focusing on the business of planning meetings was among several new initiatives announced at the American Society of Association...
IAEM Caps Busy Year
The International Association for Exhibition Management, Dallas, will roll into its annual meeting and exposition, December 1 to 3 in San Antonio, with...
AM INDEX: OCTOBER 2004
Percentage growth of convention center exhibit space from August 2003 through July 2004: 4.3%...
Examining the Universe of Association Spending
Association meetings account for about $30 billion in spending annually, with attendee expenditures accounting for $26 billion and association spending...
Ease the Pain of Attrition
There's not much worse than winding up a successful meeting only to find that the hotel is claiming that your group did not fulfill its room block requirements...
Features
LET'S MAKE A DEAL
For the first time in its 108-year history, the National Fire Protection Association is headed to Las Vegas for its annual meeting next year. Why? Because...
New Frontiers in Meeting Menus
Americans eat to live, Europeans live to eat. Until recently, this snipe at our fast-food culture was fairly accurate. But today, growing ranks of ordinary...
Commentary
New Era for CVBs
I still remember the conversation I had eight years ago with a CVB exec from a small Midwest city. We were at a PCMA reception and he was explaining why...
Special Section
Sites
Conference Center Revs Up Waterfront
A REVITALIZED WATERFRONT is on the docket in Bremerton, Wash. And the new 10,000-square-foot Kitsap Conference Center, which opened harborside in July,...
Salt Lake City
My expectations on visiting the 775-room Grand America in Salt Lake City this summer were modest. I knew the hotel had been built as the headquarters...
INNER CIRCLE 2004 Award Winners
Welcome to our special section highlighting notable convention and visitors bureaus, as well as convention centers containing essential information for...
Back of the House
To DNC or Not to DNC
Ben Yalow, event planner for the 2004 World Science Fiction Convention, noticed an unexpected number of hits and queries to the convention Web site this...
Preserving the Past
In the movie houses of the 1920s, silent films were scored by musicians who played large pipe organs in the theaters. Back then, there were thousands...
ASAE to Tell Its Story
Leaders often talk about the need to tell their to the marketplace. Well, the American Society of Association Executives is taking the idea a step further...
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