The International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus has released the results of its 1998 convention income survey, conducted by Deloitte & Touche, LLP, an accounting and consulting firm. The participating 99 bureaus in the U.S. and...

Growing Homes Habitat for Humanity projects are now a frequent feature at association meetings--but not many attendees have actually helped grow the materials they use to build the house. At the Society of American Foresters' 1998 convention, held...

Taylor Takes Association Execs to China Former president and CEO of the American Society of Association Executives, R. William Taylor, CAE, will lead a delegation of association executives to China in May. The trip is organized by People to People...

San Francisco voters approved the continuation of a hotel tax increase to help fund a 300,000-square-foot addition to the Moscone Convention Center. The $191 million expansion, which is expected to be completed by February 2003, will bring total...

Technology, Attrition, and Commissions Key Issues at PCMA Meeting The future is not about either/or. It's about and/both. It's about abundance, not scarcity," espoused technology guru Daniel Burrus at the opening session of the 43d annual meeting...

Teaming up with the Orange County/Orlando Convention and Visitors Bureau, Starwood Hotels and Resorts donated $20,000 to purchase a ventilator for the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Women and Children in Orlando during the annual meeting in January of...

Associations are creating Web sites in record numbers--and planners are using them for internal communications, event bookings, and promotional marketing of meeting programs. But the quality of these Web sites varies tremendously...

Sitting at a lively seminar on post-convention reports at the recent PCMA meeting in Orlando, I was pleased to find the presenter quoting long passages from our December cover story on the "standardization" effort within the industry. But I was...

Built in the 1920s, The Don CeSar Beach Resort & Spa in St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., has a lot going for it--a fabulous seaside location; a friendly, helpful staff; and a magnificent, historic property that looks like a pink sand castle...

Some say site selection companies save time and money--others say they add hidden costs to hotel room rates...