SuperComm, one of the largest technology trade shows in the early 2000s, has been canceled for 2010. Citing financial concerns, the two associations that jointly sponsor the event—the United States Telecom Association and the Telecommunications...
U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has named executives from four convention and visitors bureaus to the 29-member United States Travel and Tourism Advisory Board...
President Obama is expected to sign in to law within the next week or so the Travel Promotion Act, landmark legislation designed to create 40,000 new travel-industry jobs and attract 1.6 million more international visitors to the United States...
Following a massive earthquake February 27 that measured 8.8 on the Richter scale and killed more than 700 people, many Chileans are slowly recovering basic essential services such as water and electricity. Relief supplies from the United Nations...
A keynote speaker at Meeting Professionals International's MeetDifferent 2010 has been generating sparks from bloggers who followed the conference, not because of his message, but for the way he delivered it...
The Commission on The United Methodist Church General Conference announced recently that it has chosen Portland, Ore., as the site for the 2016 General Conference. The United Methodist Church's top legislative body will meet at the Oregon...
Close to 1,100 people were learning and networking at Meeting Professionals International’s MeetDifferent conference in Cancun, according to Bruce MacMillan, MPI’s CEO, at a press conference on February 22. While acknowledging that number was just...
More than 1,500 pre-scheduled appointments between 110 meeting managers and 90 suppliers took place February 20–23 at Meeting Professionals International’s MeetDifferent 2010 conference in Cancun, Mexico. This marks MPI’s first foray into a hosted...
A March webinar series, called SnowTech 2010, will present at least six of the sessions that were canceled when a blizzard forced the American Society of Association Executives & the Center for Association Leadership to call off its 2010...
