Now meeting planners who work for tax-exempt organizations have another set of regulations to consider. The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service last spring came out with their final rules relating to the tax treatment of corporate...
A year after Chicago-based C. H. Johnson Consulting Inc. delivered its recommendations for major changes within the Greater Cincinnati CVB, the bureau has announced its restructuring under the direction of its new president, Lisa Haller...
The Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) has launched a new research project that will measure and track the growth of the exhibition industry in the U.S. and Canada...
If the Chicago Marriott Downtown were a ship, it would have added a poop deck for the best friends and working canine partners of many of the 600 people who came to The Foundation Fighting Blindness national conference August 22 to 25. The hotel...
Ending weeks of speculation, Denver’s Mayor Wellington Webb picked the Hyatt Corp. to manage a 1,100-room headquarters hotel, to be located within a block or two of the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver...
"The room gap is happening and it's getting worse. We've got to blow up our current practices," said Christine Shimasaki, CMP, executive vice president of sales and marketing, San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau. She spoke at a packed session...
Annette Meyer, meetings and events manager, American Rental Association, Moline, Ill., was delighted to hear she'd won a vacation package for two just for filling out the 2002 Inner Circle Award ballot she found in the pages of Association...
A new kind of contract is shooting holes in the way business is being done between meeting planners and hotels. “Bulletproof contracts,” tightly written, highly definitive contracts, are heavily weighted toward hotels and are growing increasingly...
Midsize (or second-tier) cities and their CVBs offer religious meeting planners a new array of convention center facilities and lots of negotiability in these recessionary times. Religious conventions that appreciate a little extra attention can...
One week after September 11, 2001, I was sitting in a lobby at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. My dad was undergoing what turned out to be successful liver cancer surgery, but the day was a long one. It began at 5 a.m., when my wife and I...
