"I can't believe it's early Monday morning and we are smiling about contracts," said Edwin L. Griffin Jr., CAE, president and CEO of Meeting Professionals International. The Monday morning was November 2. The occasion--the opening session of the...
* Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is converting the 400-room Westin Washington, D.C. City Center Hotel to the Wyndham Washington, D.C. The hotel offers a 6,200-square-foot ballroom, 16 meeting rooms, a business center, and a health club...
"Ethical Issues in the Meetings Industry." That was the name of the most recent program sponsored by the New England chapter of the Professional Convention Management Association, held at the Bay Tower Room in Boston. The featured speaker? William...
Protecting Your Image and Message: Printing Contracts Your hotel, conference, or convention center arrangements are complete and your meeting dates are set. Now you want your premeeting publicity and meeting brochures to be printed correctly, have...
Larry Keltto, Editor (507) [email protected] Larry graduated from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., with a degree in English and attended William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minn. During his career in newspapers...
Meeting Professionals International is committed to strengthening its educational offerings. That was the message conveyed by MPI's new president, Bob Moore (vice president of sales, Los Angeles Convention & Visitors Bureau) during his opening...
Opryland had reason to celebrate. "We're taking Opryland's tradition farther south--into the Mouse's territory," quipped Jack J. Vaughn, president of Opryland Hospitality and Attractions division, Gaylord Entertainment Company, at the opening...
* Harris County Commissioners in Houston recently approved a $95 million expansion and renovation of the Astrodome Complex. To be completed in April 2001, the project will add a 600,000-square-foot exhibit hall, central heating and cooling, and...
Rolling UP the Red Carpet? Imagine walking into your hotel one month before your meeting and finding the staff literally ripping up the carpets in the meeting rooms. That's what happened to Carol L. Roberts, association director, Association...
For years people have been buying shares in condos so they can reserve dates for future vacations. Now the trade show industry has adapted the idea, and for the first time, show management companies are lined up to become equity partners in a...
