The Convene Green Alliance, a membership organization of more than 60 associations and industry partners, will hold an educational event June 19, at the JW Marriott Hotel Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. The event will explore renewable...
A marketing initiative by the Hawaii Convention Center to help association clients build international attendance resulted in a 10 percent increase in foreign visitors at Hawaii meetings last year...
Record oil prices are pushing costs up, an economic downturn is sending demand down, and the memory of the demise of two all-business-class trans-Atlantic carriers—Eos and Maxjet--is still fresh, but a new premium airline is set to begin selling...
There may be a housing crisis nationwide, but the meetings business is still being courted with downright ferocity in the South-Central states, where billions of dollars are being spent on new hotels, venues, convention centers, and mass transit ...
The Green Meeting Industry Council’s search for a new executive director has ended. The Portland, Ore.–based organization has appointed Tamara Kennedy Hill to the role, effective May 15. Hill comes to the GMIC from Travel Portland, the city’s con...
“In everyone’s career and everyone’s life there’s a season, and a while ago it just seemed that it was time for me to move on,” said Susan Sarfati, CAE, executive vice president at the American Society of Association Executives and president and...
The Risk Insurance Management Society donated $10,000 to a local school serving disadvantaged children during its recent annual meeting in San Diego...
