Dan Fenton, president and CEO of the San Jose (Calif.) Convention & Visitors Bureau, acknowledges that the buyer-seller relationship was changing even before 9/11 complicated things. Because of the value of group business, “We as a destination...
Diversity is increasingly in the spotlight: The face of the United States is changing, and associations — and their meetings — need to change along with it. Not surprisingly, one association in the vanguard is the National Association for the...
CIC Gets with the Times: The Convention Industry Council, an umbrella organization representing 30 associations in the meetings, conventions, exhibitions, and travel industries, has selected The New York Times to launch its public education...
You can't beat the combination of top-notch theater, imaginative Chinese food, and a charming hotel. That's what my family and I found when we spent some time in downtown Boston's Chinatown/Theater District...
•We regret that in the Beyond Borders 2002 supplement to Association Meetings' June issue, we incorrectly listed the number of hotels operated by Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts. In the sidebar, “Selected International Hotel Operators,” page 40, we...
Not long ago, David Kushner, CMP, CAE, was standing in a river with his fly-fishing rod, enjoying the sounds of nature as the water rippled past. His fishing guide, however, was not so serene. “He was really frustrated, and felt like he was...
I attended a very large meeting last winter, but it was at a small breakout session that I learned more about a meeting's worth than I'd learned in nearly 20 years in the meeting industry...
For events that have networked computers, presenters who access the Internet, or other connectivity needs, planners need a grasp of connectivity basics. We've assembled answers to your most frequently asked questions, provided a checklist for tech...
STEPHANIE FRANKS, president of MarKomm Consulting, a Denver-based event marketing and production company, is the mind behind ConferZone, a year-and-a-half-old Web site that bills itself as “the first objective e-conferencing resource.” With its...
The American Bar Association's annual meeting began 125 years ago as a place to conduct the association's business, but over the years it's become too big for its own good. Last summer's conference involved approximately 2,500 individual events...
