The 350,000-square-foot Palm Beach County Convention Center opened in January in West Palm Beach, Fla., three miles from Palm Beach International Airport. Among the meeting space: the 100,000-square-foot exhibit hall, a 25,000-square-foot ballroom...
CLAUSE: Hotel hereby confirms a Group single/double sleeping room rate of $100. Current tax charged on sleeping rooms is 12 percent, including 8 percent sales tax and 4 percent occupancy tax. Neither Group nor its attendees will be responsible for...
Christy Richards is a rare breed in the meeting planning business. She doesn't “do” attrition. Never has, and she hopes, never will. The meeting planner for the Chicago-based National Association of Realtors avoids the “A” word by employing a room...
Religious meeting planners traditionally have not placed resort properties on their list of potential venues for meetings. The typical barrier to considering resorts has been, and continues to be, that of perception: concern that the venue might...
Air travel today 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...
Over the years I've developed a ritual whenever I head home after a convention. I sort out all the press releases, brochures, handouts, and assorted tchotchkes I've been given or collected in the course of the meeting — generally leaving behind a...
The Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa,30 minutes north of Albuquerque (N.M.) International Airport and owned by the Santa Ana Pueblo, Tamaya, is an immersion experience, a place where visitors feel transported to an ancient and proud culture...
More than 5,000 tattoo enthusiasts converged upon the Wyndham at Franklin Plaza in Philadelphia in February to attend the 2004 Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention and to roast Edward Funk, the man who made it all happen. Funk launched the...
The biggest challenge to hotel guests' privacy rights may not come from government investigators fighting terrorism. It may come instead from attrition charges. With sizeable attrition bills becoming commonplace, many planners are requesting that...
