“We are scared to death about next July,” says Linda de Leon, CMP, RCMA board member and meeting planner for next year's Seventh-day Adventist Church General Conference in St. Louis. The conference occurs every five years and typically attracts...
Golfers often talk about beating their handicaps, but for Dennis Walters that has a whole different meaning. Some 28 years ago, Walters was ready to realize his dream of playing on the PGA Tour when a golf cart accident left him paralyzed from the...
In mid-March, 31 women in the meeting and hospitality industry gathered at the Chaminade Conference Resort in Santa Cruz, Calif., to participate in a pilot program designed to do no less than start a revolution in this industry. Dubbed the First...
A non-theme destination resort in Orlando, Fla., sounds like an oxymoron, but the new Grande Lakes Orlando pulls it off flawlessly. The nearly $600 million upscale property offers no hint of the theme parks that are mere minutes away...
If there's a loose microphone around, Jaclyn Bernstein, co-owner of Empire Force Events, New York, N.Y., will be the first one to grab it — and she'll be the first one to admit it. too. That's why it came as no surprise to see Bernstein and...
Although the International Association for Exhibition Management does not track lost business, a number of its members have blamed visa hassles for attendance drops and no-show exhibitors. Some, like George Little Management, have had to revise...
While the job market has shown signs of improvement since our February cover story “Field Guide to the Jobless Recovery,” there is a long way to go before American workers enjoy anything close to the employment levels of just five years ago. Here...
While unemployment hit 6 percent nationally last year, association management companies saw a 7.3 percent growth in business, according to the AMC Institute, an association for AMCs based in Westmont, Ill. The group's research shows that the AMC...
Air travel is synonymous with long lines on top of longer lines, luggage checks, and shoe searches. And that's under normal circumstances. When the nation is on high alert, security is even tighter. What can a meeting planner do to keep attendees...
