Moose International has selected Milwaukee as the host city for its 2013 International Convention. The convention is expected to bring more than 7,000 delegates to the city and take up to 18,000 room nights...
The New Orleans Saints had just beaten the Indianapolis Colts to win Super Bowl XLIV and Stephen Perry’s cell phone was buzzing like crazy as he stood basking in the triumph of his hometown team at Sun Life Stadium in Miami. “I probably had 25 to...
International meeting and incentive destinations suffered through major declines in group business in 2009, and the outlook is not much better for 2010, according to two recent reports...
A new study released at the 2010 Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association Healthcare Convention Marketing Summit in January found that docs still consider trade shows an important way to see everything related to their specialty in one place...
My head is still spinning with ideas, enthusiasm, and wall-to-wall content from last week’s 2010 Sustainable Meetings Conference in Denver, hosted by the Green Meeting Industry Council...
Yolanda Bullock-Cooper, the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau's vice president of short-term, multicultural, and religious sales, recently received the National Coalition of Black Meeting Planners' 2009 Pioneer Award. The award is given...
There’s nothing more of-the-moment than a smart-phone app. Not surprisingly, developers are all over the meeting space, creating ways for you to reach out to attendees—and to help them reach out to each other—through their handheld devices...
As long as you’re dragging that smart phone everywhere you go, you may as well put it to work. We’ve rounded up nine must-have apps for meeting professionals (and a few more just for fun). All are built for the iPhone, but BlackBerry users take...
The Youth Gathering of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will return to New Orleans in 2012, after being held there in 2009. Returning to a host city consecutively is unprecedented in the history of the triennial ELCA Youth Gatherings...
