The Professional Convention Management Association has been slapped with a sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit brought by its former controller, Pamela M. Boyles. In her complaint, Boyles says that her supervisor, William J. Myers, CAE...
When I walked into the newly expanded Caesars Atlantic City recently, it felt more like being in ancient Rome than on the Jersey shore. I found the design and decor of the new Temple Lobby riveting. The spectacular six-story atrium lobby looks...
If you are planning a meeting for the year 2000, you need to address the so-called "Y2K problem." In brief: Most computers cannot properly process a post-1999 date field. The result is that without significant reprogramming, all but the newest...
Music Licensing Ends On Sour Note Hundreds of association executives wrote to their representatives urging them to support music licensing reform--but all that drum-beating didn't do the trick. The House had passed the bill back in March with a...
No sooner did the labor crisis get resolved, then a shake-up at the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau focused more negative attention on the Windy City's contentious politics. Christopher G. Kennedy (yes, Kennedy as in the Kennedy family)...
Internet promotion is no longer a "maybe someday" proposition. In the recently released 1999 Meetings Outlook Survey co-sponsored by Meeting Professionals International and the American Society of Association Executives, more than one in five of...
* A groundbreaking ceremony was held recently for the $14 million La Crosse Center project in La Crosse, Wis. The expansion will double the current facility's space to more than 90,000 square feet and will include a new 6,000-square-foot ballroom...
The Lodge at Vail, the first resort ever operated at the base of Vail Mountain in the Colorado Rockies, has been a meeting place from the day it opened its doors in the winter of 1962. Back then, local townspeople would gather in its lobby to...
There's lots of staff movement going on at the Washington, D.C.-based American Society of Association Executives ever since Michael S. Olson, president and CEO, took over in August...
The year was 1983 and "globalization" had not yet become a buzzword, but "export promotion" and "international marketing" were very much on the minds of the tiny cadre of executives who made up the leadership of the Dental Manufacturers of America...