Mary Charles & Associates (MC&A), a Honolulu-based destination management company, has entered a joint venture with Convention Management Resources, a housing, registration, and travel services company based in San Francisco...

The creativity and imagination that goes into planning a memorable meeting often takes a break when it comes time for coffee. It shouldn't, says G. Eugene Wigger, whose book Themes, Dreams & Schemes offers planners a wealth of menu and theme...

What's great about PlanSoft's Ajenis software is not that you can quickly and easily create documents like meeting resumes and banquet event orders on your computer. It's that the documents you create can be sent back and forth electronically...

Virtual meetings are hot. According to the International Teleconferencing Association (ITCA), the North American teleconferencing industry has grown an average of 30 percent a year since 1993. Henry Grove, president of the Philadelphia-based group...

Meeting Professionals International (MPI) introduced its Certificate in Meetings Management (CMM) for experienced meeting planners in Europe in 1994. MPI is committed to taking the program worldwide in 1998, and the Convention Liaison Council (CLC...

The October 15 to 17 Motivation Show-which is made up of the 24th Incentive Travel & Meeting Executives Show (IT&ME) and the 63rd National Premium/Incentive Show-takes over McCormick Place North in Chicago again this fall. For information...

Is One of Your Attendees Missing His Best Friend? Then let him take Pierre for a walk. Pierre is the London Mews Hilton's eight-year-old black springer spaniel, now available to go on walks with guests missing their own dogs back home. The 72-room...

Joan Mahon has been planning meetings at The New England for 25 years, but when she talks about "the old days" of meeting management, she could be remembering just three years back--or any time before late 1995 when her department started using a...

Long regarded as a place for adventure, challenge, and trend-setting innovation, and for those in tune with the great outdoors, the Northwest remains a favorite stomping ground for visionaries who like to do things on a grand scale. When insurance...

The highlights of the board's business program were two professional football figures, Stanford All-American and five-time National Football League All-Pro Brian Holloway and NFL referee Jim Tunney. Both bring a sports metaphor--and something more...