Room rates in the city continue to lag behind the U.S. average.

An interview with Michael Cerbelli, president of Special Events at Total Entertainment, Carlstadt, N.J., is again at the helm of the Search Foundation, a Scottsdale, Ariz.–based organization dedicated to offering financial assistance to event pro...

They're squeezed by requests for proposal that take hours‹ even days‹to complete, and by clients who expect the same caliber event as last year, but for far less money. Event planners share their frustrations and some solutions.

It took five years and more than $1.5 billion to build the Burj Dubai which, at 2,717 feet, becomes the world’s tallest tower. And its long-awaited opening earlier this month came with a surprise—the renaming of the tower as the Burj Khalifa, in...