APEX just might be the meeting industry's most ambitious project ever. A five-year mega-effort by the Convention Industry Council to develop and implement accepted practices for the meeting industry, APEX is focused on seven subjects: housing and...
Troubles plaguing travel didn't keep many from the third annual Affordable Meetings Mid-America, held April 1 to 4 at Chicago's Navy Pier. The show, which features educational programming bookending an exposition, is free for meeting planners...
Why does one technology conference make it and another fail? One answer is the degree to which the event can morph with the times. One conference that has managed to survive the upheavals of the marketplace is digitalNow, an event focused on...
IN LAGUNA BEACH, CALIF., Montage Resort & Spa opened in February. The 262-room resort is sited on 30 beachfront acres, and offers a 20,000-square-foot spa, three swimming pools and more than 20,000 square feet of indoor/outdoor meeting space...
E-CONFERENCING SPIKED just before and after U.S. troops invaded Iraq, but it isn't like the stampede that followed the terrorist attacks of 2001, says Randy Salisbury, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Atlanta-based Premiere...
AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR with Iraq, Newark, N.J.-based Prudential Financial issued a statement to all of its employees that “all non-critical international travel be delayed, if possible.” On April 8, Prudential's employees received another urgent...
THE BUSINESS TRAVEL Coalition released a number of surveys this spring to take corporate America's temperature on the impact of the severe acute respiratory syndrome on their corporate travel policies...
FOR YOUR UPPER ECHELON incentive qualifiers, look no further than The Dorchester, Park Lane, London. Since 1831, The Dorchester has been heralded as one of London's best hotels, hosting all the important heads of state throughout the 19th, 20th...