Hoteliers posted strong gains in 2006 as profits rose 13.3 percent, on average, for the year, according to PKF Consulting’s 2007 Trends in the Hotel Industry survey. But profits in 2006 were still about 21 percent lower than in 2000, according to...
Springtime, a one-day trade show and conference for the association community, will be held June 14 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C., sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives and the Center for Association...
StarCite is helping planners to automate and streamline going green. The Philadelphia-based provider of meeting-management solutions has partnered with Meeting Strategies Worldwide Inc., a Portland, Ore.–based conference management, consulting...
Five years after it became law, the Sarbanes-Oxley bill has sparked a number of shifts in the way meetings are managed and procured, said Joshua Grimes, Esq., Grimes Law Offices, Philadelphia, speaking at the Third Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting...
The typical exhibit hall is overwhelming and an inefficient learning environment. That’s just one of the findings in a survey of healthcare convention attendees conducted by Impact Unlimited, a Dayton, N.J.-based event production and...
Trade show organizers have a problem, said Mickey McManus, president and CEO of MAYA Design, to the more 180 people who gathered at the Washington, D.C., Convention Center last week for the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum one-day...
Using its recent Professional Education Conference–Europe as it resource laboratory, Meeting Professionals International has released a white paper that, it says, reaffirms the impact effective “learning” meetings have on ROI for both the meeting...
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s board of directors approved the budget, timeline, and plans for the renovation of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Most of the work will be completed in 2010, as initially planned, although some...
