Membership in the fledgling American Society of Gay & Lesbian Meeting Planners (ASGLMP) grew from 24 to 200 in its first eight weeks, reports Jim Luce, national coordinator for ASCLMP and executive director of the New York City- based American...

Perhaps no city is struggling as hard with the limitations of its convention and exhibition space as is Boston. Its three convention centers have little more than half a million square feet of exhibit space combined; in the convention wars, that...

UltraRes, the new automated reservations system launched by The Hotel Industry Switch Company (THISCO), received a major boost recently when the International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus (IACVB) endorsed the product as a...

Puerto Rico has taken the first steps toward building a major new convention center. Early this year a steering committee was established to guide the development of a major facility as part of the island's $1.2 million waterfront project, El...

There's a pocket of warmth in Lake Placid, NY, at the family-owned Mirror Lake Inn. The 128-room, Four-Diamond inn claims a corner of Lake Placid's Mirror Lake, a five-hour drive from New York City or two-hour drive from the airport in Burlington...

The Greater Cincinnati Convention and Visitors Bureau achieved a partial victory when the City Council unanimously approved a new booking policy for the Albert B. Sabin Convention Center recently. Under the new policy, effective in 2002, the...

At conventions, our frustrated but able young staff run around in circles, carrying out the mandates of a bloated volunteer meeting bureaucracy. We need to change, but how...

* Planners can send requests for proposals online to International Association of Conference Centers (IACC) members. RFPs can go to multiple properties and be adapted for different meetings without re-entering data. IACC's online address is http:/...

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Six Canadian hotels are acting as pilot properties for the testing of the "Courtesy of Choice" program, developed by the International Hotel Association to accommodate both smokers and nonsmoking hotel guests. The program combines the effective...