With mounting daily pressures because of unending e-mails, telephone calls, appointments, corporate meetings, scheduled site visits, contracts to finalize, etc., our prioritized work list seems to get set aside. Promises and deadlines seem elusive...
AFTER A $65 MILLION renovation, the 480-room Hyatt Grand Champions Resort & Spa, in Indian Wells, Calif., now has remodeled guest rooms and meeting rooms (including the 20,000-square-foot ballroom). Every guest room and suite is now fully...
Among the modifications to union labor rules at Chicago's McCormick Place and Navy Pier, exhibitors can do more booth work on their own, including hanging signs, blowing up balloons, handing out fliers, and hooking up electrical connections...
Associations turn to archiving for some mix of the following: to add value to their programming, to generate revenues (either through sponsorships or fees for viewing), or to extend the life of the live event throughout the year by giving viewers...
The woman pictured at the top of page 32 in our April issue was misidentified. She is Bobbie Lathan, president, Ministers' Wives & Ministers' Widows, Milwaukee. RCM regrets the error.
For the second consecutive year, the number of meetings conducted by the RCMA membership increased significantly, with the net effect being a 15 percent increase over the past two years...
If you remember the Pennsylvania Poconos as an outdated collection of ski resorts and honeymoon havens, you're in for a pleasant surprise. I visited this region of rolling hills tucked in the state's northwest corner for the grand opening of the...
The Hampton Roads Convention Center, in Hampton, Va., opened in May, just 20 minutes from the Norfolk (Va.) International Airport. With its sail-like canopy over the entrance, the 344,000-square-foot convention center strikes me as both...
“Strategic planning by committee just doesn't work,” observed Nancy Berg, executive director of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, at the fourth annual Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum, held May 28 at the new Washington (D.C.)...
