In August, the $202.5 million Virginia Beach Convention Center opened its first phase of construction. It now offers 300,000 square feet of space, including a 31,029-square-foot ballroom, a 56,516-square-foot exhibition hall, and 19,249 square...

Meetings, conventions, exhibitions, and incentive travel generated $122.3 billion in direct spending in the United States last year, according to the Convention Industry Council's Economic Impact Study, released in September. Association-sponsored...

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Like many new meeting planners, Melody Aldrich had to grow with the job. Fortunately, the job also grew with her...

While they may not see snow, three Gaylord properties in the southern U.S. will become winter wonderlands this winter. The Gaylord Palms, Kissimmee, Fla., the Gaylord Texan, Grapevine, Texas, and the Gaylord Opryland, Nashville, will be...

Nearly a thousand meetings were held in New Orleans last year — and those are just the ones tracked by the city's convention bureau. (An estimated 44 percent of the city's 9.5 million room nights annually are derived from group business, according...

Virginia Lofft, former publisher of Religious Conference Manager, is among six individuals who will be immortalized in the Convention Industry Council's Hall of Leaders. The six honorees were selected from a group of extraordinary nominees...

In Anchorage, Alaska, voters have approved a hotel room tax hike to 12 percent from 8 percent to fund construction and operation of a new 193,000-square-foot, $93 million downtown convention center. The center will have roughly 93,000 square feet...