I've recently been reading about the Burning Man Festival (www.burningman.com) held every year in the desert outside Reno. This week-long festival centers around the ritual incineration of a 52-foot-high wooden statue of a standing man, and it...
We're feeling good about some changes here at Association Meetings, and we'd like to tell you about them. First, a warm welcome to our new associate editor Anna Chinappi. She's a seasoned journalist, with more than 15 years' experience as a...
Trends in the travel industry indicate that traditional rest and relaxation vacations are being replaced by adventure vacations. These trends are reflected in the activities available to attendees at meetings and conventions. In addition to golf...
Canadian Pacific's Banff Springs Hotel has opened Solace, a $12 million, 35,000-square-foot, European-style spa. Among its features: a 105-foot, heated indoor saltwater pool; a 65-foot, heated outdoor pool; private steam rooms, saunas, and sun...
San Diego Wows Meeting Attendees Maya Angelou didn't use PowerPoint in her key- note address at the American Society of Association Executives annual conference. Instead, she used poetry, passion, song, and memory to encourage attendees to...
Amazingly, only about five percent of the show's expected 18,000 delegates and 860 exhibitors from around the world ended up not attending the event the next day, according to Rick Davis, president and CEO of the Salt Lake CVB...
Swept Away--and Back Again When planner Jayne Abbot saw the lights flicker during a lunch break during her association's annual board meeting in Salt Lake City on August 11, she thought nothing of it. That is, she says, "Until someone stuck his...
