When RCMA's 30th Conference and Exposition convenes next month in Tampa, Fla., one thing is certain: The event will look a lot different from RCMA's conference in 1978. That year, RCMA was 5 years old, and its conference was held in a small room...
Religious meeting planners no longer have to worry about attendees being zapped with an energy surcharge from your host hotel — if your hotel is a Hilton or Hyatt, that is. The surcharge was instituted in some areas earlier this year to offset...
Jay Fortgang had a great idea last August: brokering hotel credits for canceled meetings that won't be replaced by new business before the credits expire. So he started MyHotelBroker (www.myhotelbroker.com). Different from a hot dates/hot rates...
AM's Caribbean site file in the August issue inadvertently listed the Paradisus Sol Meliá Resort in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, as opening in April 2002 as two hotels. The resort was scheduled to open in December 2002 as a single hotel.
Two months ago, a planner “overly concerned” with security issues might have been branded as paranoid. As of September 11, anyone not focused on those issues risks accusations of negligence. “Our safe cocoon has been broken,” says Patti Roscoe...
Like so many associations, the International Association for Exhibition Management moved quickly on a number of fronts following the events of September 11. Among the immediate actions taken was the decision to postpone three board meetings that...
More than 1,500 people celebrated the opening of the Center for Association Leadership at the Marriott Learning Complex in Washington, D.C., in November. The center was founded by the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives (GWSAE) as...
As professional planners we have a moral and legal responsibility to be proactive rather than reactive with regard to anticipating risks and preparing emergency response plans. This has always been the case, although for many in our industry...
