The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) expects more than 5,500 attendees to converge at the newly expanded McCormick Place Convention Center, July 26 to 30, for ASAE Chicago 1997. About 100 educational sessions, organized in 20...
"I want members everywhere to be able to benefit from Meeting Professionals International's (MPI) programs and take part in its governance," says MPI's president-elect Anna Lee Chabot, CMP, who officially begins her term on July 1. Currently the...
Hilton Hotels Corporation's new disclosure policy created a furor among meeting planners when it was announced at January's Professional Convention Management Association meeting. The policy was designed to inform attendees when a hotel paid any...
Industry Conference Fuels Debateon Future of Meetings Technology It was the software package that was supposed to create, at long last, a standardized platform for the electronic exchange of meeting data between hotels and planners. Then, just...
* The province of Manitoba capitalizes on its natural splendor in a new 20-page brochure called Manitoba: Your Natural Incentive. The publication describes possible itineraries combining the best of the capital city of Winnipeg with trophy fishing...
A new music licensing agreement has been reached between the music and meeting industries, simplifying the reporting process and reducing costs for associations. Industry organizations--Meeting Professionals International (MPI), American Society...
As meeting planning has gotten more complex, so have the ethical issues facing the industry. Just ask Dobby Wall, director of meeting services for the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) in Alexandria, VA. As a former ethics committee...
Promote Trade Shows. For an example of all-stops-out promotion on the Web, visit www.super-comm.com, site of Supercomm, a conference and trade show jointly owned and sponsored by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the United...
At the 1997 New England Meetings Industry Conference & Exposition (NEMICE), which drew a record 1,200 attendees to the World Trade Center Boston in April, the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau (GBCVB) announced the June launch of...
The Trend Toward Daily Service Fees Prepare your attendees for a new charge on their folios at some resorts: a daily service fee. While it may sound like one more aspect of the seller's market squeeze, resort staffers say they instituted the fees...
