Gaylord Entertainment, owner of such properties as Nashville’s sprawling Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center and the just-opened Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Maryland on the Potomac River, has announced plans to build...

The New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau reported late last week that hotels and restaurants in New Orleans are re-opening throughout the tourism corridor as residents and employees return to the city following Hurricane Gustav...

The American Society of Association Executives and The Center for Association Leadership continues its work on social responsibility, picking up where it left off with this past May’s Global Summit on Social Responsibility...

Experience Columbus, the convention and visitors bureau of Columbus, Ohio, has launched an unusual new marketing campaign—you might be even call it counterintuitive...

I watched with sick fascination as Hurricane Gustav blew in last weekend, threatening to once again flood New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas and causing the Republican National Convention to severely curtail its opening activities on Monday...

Despite a downturn in occupancy levels, U.S. hotels posted increases in both average daily rate and revenue per available room for the month of July, according to Smith Travel Research...

At its annual meeting last week, ASAE and The Center for Association Leadership put some action behind the 2008 diversity initiative announced at last year’s conference by opening the meeting with a panel of diversity experts. Led by journalists...

Susan Sarfati, the outgoing CEO of The Center for Association Leadership and executive vice president at the American Society of Association Executives, will join the Boston-based speakers bureau, The American Program Bureau, starting September 1...

It has been announced that the New Shanghai Circus will provide the Wednesday night entertainment at the 37th RCMA World Conference and Exposition, Jan. 27-30, 2009, in Grand Rapids, Mich...

Bruce MacMillan, CA, president and CEO of Meeting Professionals International, welcomed a record-breaking audience of more than 4,300 attendees to MPI’s World Education Congress at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas during Sunday’s...