“It's not that I've changed the way I do things,” says Maureen Karon, CMP, CMM, global meeting manager for Deloitte Touche Tohamatsu, in New York, who plans many small meetings every year globally. “But I tend to pay more attention now to...
Since January, the U.S. dollar has dropped nearly 6 percent against the euro. And a volatile foreign currency exchange rate means planners might pay more for hotel rooms, ground transportation, and other services for many European events...
The American Society of Association Executives plans to relocate its 20005 annual meeting, originally scheduled for Los Angeles, and is soliciting bids from five U.S. cities in the East and “mid-East” to host that convention, says Michael S. Olson...
Cheryl K. Nordstedt, has retired as executive director of The American Academy of Dermatology after 25 years with AAD. She started in 1978 as director of the meetings and conventions department. During her tenure, the size of AAD's annual meeting...
When 40 Monsanto Chemical Co. sales reps visited Costa Rica recently, it was the outdoor experience that lured them, so the four-day event left plenty of time for adventure. “They stayed in San Jose, and we took them hiking through the rain forest...
“Our business has always been only association business,” says John Siciliano, executive director of the Wildwoods Convention Center in Wildwoods, N.J. According to Siciliano, associations tend to gravitate to second-tier cities for their meetings...
Travel and entertainment expenses are a big chunk of change for corporations — air alone could account for one-third of your budget. Given the economic uncertainties of the past two-and-a-half years, it's not surprising that companies have taken...
Women are taking up golf in greater numbers than ever before. Between 2000 and 2001 alone, the number of women golfers rose from 5 million to more than 6 million, according to the National Golf Foundation. The number of male golfers rose from 18.9...
Located at the center of the Far East, Korea has for thousands of years been the place where East meets West. It has received worldwide recognition as a new convention destination for the new millennium, offering brand-new state-of-the-art...
ATTENDANCE AT LAST YEAR'S CONEXPO-CON/AGG in Las Vegas was down from 1999's record 120,000, “but where we took it on the chin was on the international side,” says Dennis Slater, a managing director for the construction and construction materials...
