HOUSTON HAD A PROBLEM: It had a state-of-the-art convention center — the George R. Brown Convention Center — but no headquarters hotel. Without a large, 1,000-plus room hotel near the center, Houston had trouble filling it — trouble that went on...

Julia Meigs often accompanies her husband James to medical conventions, and a couple of years ago they traveled as far as Mantua, Italy. In the introduction to a collection of letters she wrote home during her family's subsequent sabbatical year...

After a 35-year run, the Society of Corporate Meeting Professionals has closed up shop...

Anyone who has experienced the magic of high tea at the Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, will appreciate the magical beginning of the recent Southeast Regional Chapter meeting of ICPA. Held March 3 to 4, 2005, and hosted by the Grand...

INN OF THE MOUNTAIN GODS RESORT & CASINO reopened March 15 in Mescalero, N.M., after an expansion and complete renovation. The southwest New Mexico property has 273 rooms and suites, 40,000 square feet of meeting space, 38,000 square feet of...

MORE THAN 100 COMPANIES are out there selling online meeting registration. The question, of course, is which ones fit your company's needs. Intelligent sourcing of these critical services requires a detailed request for proposal that reflects the...

ALAN MECKLER, CEO of Darien, Conn.-based Jupitermedia Corp., started his Internet Media Commentary weblog, or blog, two years ago to tell readers about the launch of a new trade show, cdXpo, which he hoped would put technology uber-show Comdex out...

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