HONORING THE BEST culinary creations in the meeting industry, the Convention Industry Council announced the winners of its 1st annual APEX Food and Beverage Challenge...
WE'VE ALL BEEN IN STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSIONS WHERE WE spend seemingly endless hours fishboning and analyzing — without ever developing action steps or achieving results. But it doesn't have to be that way...
CELEBRATING A RECORD attendance of more than 2,700 at the Professional Education Conference in San Diego in January, Meeting Professionals International announced a position paper from its Global Corporate Circle of Excellence, telling members...
IN THE AFTERMATH of 9/11, Toby Brenner, president and CEO of Par Avion Meetings and Conventions in Los Angeles, had a client cancel a series of conferences, which resulted in some serious attrition fee exposure for the client. Through some...
HOW EXCITING — and enlightening — it has been to work on CMI's 25th anniversary issue! The experience has shown me how some things have changed dramatically — while others remain exactly as they were in 1980...
SNOWY WEATHER did not deter a record 37 planners and 18 hospitality partners from attending ICPA's Northeast winter meeting January 6 to 8 at the Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel in Boston. Gleaming from a head-to-toe renovation, the hotel's grand...
IF CHRISTINE DUFFY had been a few inches taller, we might never have heard of her. Her first career goal was to be a Pan Am international flight attendant — but she was turned down because she did not meet the height requirement...
Strategic planning is a disciplined effort to make fundamental decisions and take actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it. (For information on ICPA's strategic initiatives, see “Message from the...