Teeing Off for Conservation, Garra de Leon (Lion's Paw), the championship golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones II for the Melib Playa Conchal All-Suite Beach & Golf Resort in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, has become the first course in that...
Passkey.com Lines Up with Conferon, EventSource.com Dot-com alliances are happening fast and furiously, and the latest to unfold is a partnership between Twinsburg, Ohio-based Conferon, one of the largest independent meeting planning companies in...
Marriott Chairman and CEO J.W. Marriott Jr. welcomed a crowd of media, customers, staff, and local luminaries to the April opening of the Tampa Marriott Waterside, designated Marriott's 2,000th hotel. "I think I'm the only one here who was also at...
Two years ago, Packexpo.com was used almost exclusively for registration and information sharing about the association's trade shows. Today the site, launched as a for-profit joint venture between the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute...
When he's not refereeing Midget-A Championship ice hockey games, Professional Convention Management Association President and CEO David DuBois, CMP, CAE, these days is traveling the triangle of his home in Dallas, PCMA headquarters in Birmingham...
Michelle Jones, senior program coordinator for the U.S. Energy Association in Washington, D.C., is the lucky winner of a leather garment bag. She was randomly selected among the more than 200 respondents to our Internet survey, the results of...
This column will give you practical ideas to improve your ROI (return on investment) in marketing medical meetings. My first article (and several to follow) focuses on successful direct marketing methods, because most marketing of medical meetings...
Symbolic of South Africa's ongoing bid to attract an international mix of meetings and conventions, the Sandton Convention Centre in Sandton, South Africa, opens in September. The city of Sandton was chosen primarily for its convenient location...
Overseas ABC's in NYC Tackling the nuts and bolts of planning events in other countries, the fourth annual Beyond Borders Conference drew about 85 registrants to the New York Hilton Hotel & Towers in New York City in March for an information...
