* The Austria Center Vienna opened a new two-level exhibition hall this fall. The new facilities provide an additional 66,000 square feet of space that can be used alone or in combination with the existing Hall X...
Debbie Ramirez has joined the Pasadena (Calif.) Convention and Visitors Bureau as national sales manager. Most recently, she was sales manager for the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau...
Association Meetings announces the winners of its first annual Global Achievement Awards. We are proud to recognize the best of the best among international meeting and incentive suplliers and destinations as chosen by our readers...
As meetings become ever more complicated, with more third parties and new technology products and services entering the marketplace, a ground swell of support has arisen in the last two years for the establishment of "standards"--or in the safer...
Many parents would do anything to get their kid to open a book, but when Kellee C. Magee was seven years old, her parents took away her library card because she brought home too many books...
Four years ago, Cheryl Ronk, president of the Michigan Society of Association Executives (MSAE), received a call that changed the course of her association's convention. "A member of MMPI [Michigan chapter of Meeting Professionals International]...
On Meetings & Technology * "Technology will take the place of some meetings, but paradoxically it will increase face-to-face meetings because we need to play up the networking aspect, making [meetings] as high-touch as possible. Or, people...
When the giant wall drops between the stage and the seats, alarm lights flashing, just two minutes before the doors to the auditorium are to open for her conference, E. Gwynn Breckenridge, CMP, is baffled...
If the meeting industry ever needed an advocate, it has found one in Mickey Schaefer, CAE, current president of the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA). In an impassioned presentation at the Convention Liaison Council Forum held...
