Are you one of the many association planners who have turned to a private housing company to help solve persistent housing problems? If so, you probably won't be surprised to learn that a recent study conducted by the American Society of...
Many CVBs have Web sites with helpful information about their members, but Boston's meetingpath may be the only interactive service of its kind developed just for meeting planners. Launched earlier this year, meetingpath.comallows planners to...
The Canadian Pacific hotel company has launched its "Adopt-a-Shelter" program, in which each of the company's hotels has "adopted" a local women's shelter by donating goods and services. In addition to furniture, bedding, and other household items...
An entertainment option well-known in Hawaii and the Caribbean is now available in Vancouver. Atlantis Submarines will take your group for a look below the waves in its window-equipped subs. Some of the customized touches that Atlantis Submarines...
" Sometimes the great technological solution isn't the great technological solution," cautioned Michael P. O'Connell, director of meetings and convention services, Radiological Society of North America, Oak Brook, IL, speaking at the Meetings and...
Bob Coffey has joined the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center, an SMG-managed facility in Jacksonville, FL, as director. He had been general manager of the Marina Hotel (now Radisson Riverwalk Hotel), also in Jacksonville...
Some 75 people attended the first Beyond Borders Conference, an educational forum for planners and suppliers of international meetings, incentives, and events, held at the New York Hilton in March...
The Wisconsin Center, a $170 million, 800,000-square-foot convention center under construction in Milwaukee, has a new name as the result of a partnership between Midwest Express Airlines and the Wisconsin Center District. The facility, now known...
As meeting professionals, we make our livelihood on the dissemination of information. Our attendees need timely and detailed programs and services, and it's our job to make sure they get them...
Despite the fact that the Meetings & Exhibitions Technology Conference (METCON), held in Rosemont, IL, in April, was a technology conference, only 21 registrants, or about 4.4 percent, registered via the Internet. That's going to change...
