Hotel development is moving at an unprecedented rate in Calgary. Seven new properties are either open or on their way to opening, and many other properties are undergoing renovation. When the hotels are completed, the city will have 9,519 hotel...
Four months after its opening, the National Trade Centre in Toronto has booked 14 new events, representing $1.1 million in confirmed new business. With more than one million square feet of exhibit space, the facility is positioned as North America...
The 380-room Four Seasons Hotel Toronto is offering a winter package for groups booking the property between December 1997 and March 31, 1998. A group booking ten or more rooms gets superior guest rooms for $135 a night (all figures in U.S...
In Utah's St. George, construction has begun on the $19 million St. George Convention Center. About 120 miles north of Las Vegas and 320 miles south of Salt Lake City, the new 138,500-square-foot facility will have a 47,500-square-foot exhibit...
A colorful lion dance kicked off the annual convention of the International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus (IACVB), July 19 to 22 in Hong Kong--only the third time the 84-year-old IACVB has met outside North America...
The newly formed Association of Female Exhibit Managers and Convention Organizers (AFEMCO) will hold its first educational conference December 1 at Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center, one day prior to the annual meeting of the International...
Benny the Bull, the Chicago Bulls' red furry mascot, shook their hands, and player Randy Brown gave them autographs--just a few of the treats delegates experienced at the American Society of Association Executives' (ASAE) 77th annual meeting, July...
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London closed this summer to expand greatly its catering facilities, and to reconfigure and renovate meeting space. It is expected to be operating again by October, and will have the capacity for silver...
Few destinations have such skillfully blended natural and man-made attributes as has Arizona. There is the beauty of the desert, the relentlessness of the sunshine, the marvel of the Grand Canyon. But Arizona also has among the nation's most...
In early August, the new Four Seasons Resort Aviara opened on 180 acres in Carlsbad, CA, with 331 rooms and suites. Part of the 1,000-acre Aviara master-planned community, the 331-room luxury property is Four Seasons' first oceanview golf and...
