Every day is a bad hair day when you're on a boat!As I watch the snow hurl itself from the skies to pile up on the sills of my home office windows, it’s hard to imagine that this time last week I was lounging on the trampoline of a 38-foot catama...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Brandt's favorite quoteIn this week's Meetings Podcast Event Technology Consulting's Brandt Krueger and Grass Shack Events and Media's Mike McAllen discuss the chall...

Seoul's COEX convention and exhibition centerSeoul, South Korea’s COEX convention and exhibition center has opened two Muslim prayer rooms, a first for the country and a rare amenity in the convention center market. The two rooms, one for wome...

Threatened by a mega competitor, two organizations dig in and do the hard work of merging their annual events into a brand-new conference.

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When Lisa Devlin, Esq., Devlin Law Firm, PC, Phoenix, and Barbara Dunn, Esq., Barnes & Thornburg LLP, in Chicago, present case studies from actual meeting contract disputes in education sessions, they sometimes conclude that the parties could...

Julie Coker Graham is the new president and CEO of the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau, replacing President and CEO Jack Ferguson, who retired on December 31, 2015. Coker Graham had been executive vice president at the Philadelphia C...

1. Don't be afraid to ask. Negotiators often fail to raise an issue because they don't think they have a chance of success. Don't be afraid. Not only do good negotiators ask for everything they want, they also make sure they don't...

Meeting and incentive company Creative Group Inc., Appleton, Wis., a Direct Travel company, has acquired Masterplan Inc., LaGrange Highlands, Ill., a 25-year-old meeting planning firm specializing in high-end corporate and association events...