June 2009 AM
Cover Story
Tales from the Downturn: How NEMICE Built Attendance Despite Down Economy
Things were looking bleak for the New England Meeting Industry Conference and Exhibition’s meeting this spring. How NEMICE organizers recovered is a lesson in meeting planning damage control....
Tales From the Downturn: Scrap Metal Show Wheels and Deals
Keeping room blocks low and expectations high—plus a presidential keynote—spelled success for scrap metal show...
Tales from the Downturn: How Some Shows Are Exceeding Expectations
Despite the tough economy, some associations, including the United States Institute of Theater Technology, exceeded expectations with their annual conference from the get-go. USITT’s Stage Expo attracted 4,400 attendees. Here’s how they did it...
Tales from the Downturn: Meeting Cancellation Leads to Bankruptcy
The economic recession has taken its toll on many association meetings in some way, but it has hit none harder, perhaps, than the National Child Support Enforcement Association...
Tales from the Downturn: Good Deals (If You Can Get 'Em)
In this buyer’s market, hoteliers are willing to negotiate just about anything—but don’t expect it to last...
Check In
Deal or No Deal?
From no-attrition policies to a willingness to renegotiate existing contracts, hoteliers are giving out some great meetings deals these days. But they don’t come without a cost...
Keynotes
Why Meeting Planners Should Become Meeting Architects
Maarten Vanneste has been the CEO of meeting production firm Abbit Meeting Support, based in Belgium, since 1982. His interest in meeting format and design,...
Culinary Association Polls Members on Launch of New Meeting
Given the global economic climate, leaders at the International Culinary Tourism Association wondered if perhaps a new summit they were planning for 2010 should be a virtual event instead of a live one...
CEIR Reports Trade Show Decline in Q1 2009
The exhibition industry suffered big declines in the first quarter of 2009, dropping 11.6 percent compared to the first quarter of 2008...
Hotel Construction Slowing
The recession is beginning to have an impact on hotel construction in the United States as the number of new hotel projects in the pipeline is declining...
Hotelier Says to Think Small
Harris Rosen, founder and president of Rosen Hotels & Resorts, Orlando, since 1974, has seen a lot of things change in the 35 years that he’s been in the hotel business...
Business Casual
Best Hotel Room Tip Ever
Have you ever spent hours cursing the light from the street that comes into your hotel room no matter how hard you try to get those curtains to close...
Breakouts
Legal Ease: Understanding Force Majeure
In the aftermath of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, many organizations canceled meetings that had been contracted months or years earlier. Because of the...
Managing Information Overload
It seems a day doesn’t pass without hearing about another newspaper or periodical having financial troubles or going under. Clearly, it’s not that there’s a shortage of news. So let’s take a look some cool resources for managing the flood of online news...
Sites
Central Florida
During the next two years, more than 4,000 rooms and 434,000 square feet of new meeting space will become available as new Orlando convention hotel projects...
Texas
Many of the big hotel and meeting- and convention-related projects under way in Texas continue to forge ahead, despite the recession. In Arlington, Dallas...
Meeting Planners Guide to Greater Chicago
Chicago city officials and citizens are all buzzing about the possibility of hosting the 2016 summer Olympic Games. The decision hasn't been made yet,...
Back Talk
Dale's Laughter Stimulus Package
We have a new president and thus far, no magic has occurred. I don't know what everybody expected but no seas have parted, no miracle has been witnessed,...
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