August 1, 2006 AM

Cover Story

Leave It to the Librarians

Under the steamy New Orleans sun, shuttle buses drop off passengers at regular intervals at Hall F of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Attendees...

French Quarter: Back in Business

The return of conventions to New Orleans in late June meant a return to normalcy for the hospitality community. It felt like the French Quarter again,...

Editor's Note

Here's to a Polished Lady

On the 20th of this month, bigwigs of the convention industry will gather in Boston at the Convention Industry Council's biennial Hall of Leaders gala...

First

ECEF Packs a Punch in One-Day Conference

More than 140 executives gathered at the Washington (D.C.) Convention Center June 15 for the by-invitation-only Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum...

Breaking the Record: Largest MPI Meeting Ever

Dallas-based Meeting Professional International's 2006 World Education Conference, held in Dallas in July, drew a record attendance of more than 3,600,...

Am Index: August 2006

Percent decline in 2006 marketing budgets devoted to events: 9 % Year employment for meeting planners is expected to stop growing faster than the average...

Features

Carving Your Career

Nancy Berg on Success in Association Meeting Planning...

Keeping Track of Bits and Bytes

If Jane Doe registers online for your meeting and she provides an e-mail address to receive updates, will she also receive solicitations from the hotel...

Solutions

RFPs: Managing the Paper Chase

Planners of social, military, education, religious, and fraternal meetings all invariably have one thing in common: They need to get a lot of bang for...

Sarbanes-Oxley and Meetings

Although the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, passed by Congress in the wake of the Enron and Worldcom scandals, are applicable only to...

Sites

Midwest Meetings

What's New The Midwest continues to grow as a meetings destination, with new hotels, resorts, and convention centers adding to an already diverse product...

Fairmont Mayakoba

This new resort on Mexico's Riviera Maya was scheduled to open last fall, but Hurricane Wilma had other plans. The property suffered substantial damage...

Atlantic/Caribbean

What's New In spite of a record hurricane season in 2005, the Caribbean maintained its trend of positive growth, showing a 3.6 percent increase in arrivals...

Puerto Rico: On the Fast Track

Participants in the Meet the Greens Invitational Golf Classic and Marketplace, June 9 to 12, got their first big surprise before even reaching the Sol...

Special Section

Inner Circle 2007 Award Winners

Congratulations to our Inner Circle Award winners for 2007! Readers of Association Meetings magazine have chosen 40 hotel winners in our 15th annual Inner...

Back of the House

Hybrid Cars Save $ on Meetings

Have a conference in Boston, New York, or Washington, D.C. this summer? If attendees drive their hybrid cars to one of the Kimpton Hotel properties in...

Anyone for a Dog-Shaped Hotel?

Interested in bizarre accommodations? Check out Unusual Hotels of the World at www.unusualhotelsoftheworld.com. Launched by U.K.-based friends Simon Penn...

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