Begun in January, the $11.4 million, 60,000-square-foot expansion of the Amarillo (Texas) Civic Center is on target for a mid-2003 completion. With the expansion, the center's meeting and exhibit space will total nearly 340,000 square feet...
The days of banking unused nonrefundable airline tickets are over, at least for clients of US Airways, American, Continental, Delta, Northwest, and United. The airlines' nonrefundable fares are now unusable after the scheduled date of travel if...
Bruce McDermott, the new general manager of The National Conference Center in Lansdowne, Va., wasn't sure how to commemorate the first anniversary of 9/11. With nearly 1,000 guest rooms, the former Xerox Document University outside Washington, D.C...
“What I'm hearing from all the association human resources people I've been speaking with can be summed up in two words: downsizing and outsourcing,” reports Shira Harrington, a senior personnel consultant with the Washington, D.C.-based...
Jake Porter is a senior at Northwest High School in McDermott, Ohio, near another small southern Ohio town, Waverly. Jake has a disorder called Chromosomal Fragile-X, the most common cause of inherited mental retardation. Jake was a member of the...
Poorly purchased and tracked meetings can cost organizations plenty of money. At last, there are a number of Web-based tools for tracking, monitoring, and consolidating meeting spending. Here are the top ones...
