Beyond the beaches, big ears, and booming economy, Southern California has amenities to offer corporate meetings executives that few other destinations can boast, and it is building more. The biggest? During the 45th anniversary of "the theme park...

This is the second in my two-part column on online site selection. For Part 1, see January 2000 CMI, page 49...

Multibillion-dollar mega-mergers like the recent AOL/Time Warner deal can easily turn sour when not enough attention is paid to the "people" side of the deal. So say the authors of The Complete Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions (Jossey-Bass...

Communication is critical for a successful meeting or event. Often just the process of you and your suppliers communicating goals and requirements with each other will reveal things that would otherwise slip through the cracks...

More than 600 meeting professionals are expected to attend NEMICE 2000 (New England Meeting Industry Conference & Exposition), which takes place April 13 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. The exhibition will showcase more than 300...

As co-owner, president, and CEO of USMotivation, an Atlanta-based performance-improvement company, Michael Hadlow has grown his company into a national provider of multimedia promotional communications and corporate incentive-program consulting. A...

"Delightfully charming" is how Grand Theme Hotels is billing its newly opened Celebration Hotel in Celebration, Fla.--two words that certainly couldn't be used to describe most of the hotels in this region of gargantuan theme resorts and parks...

Something basic is changing at conference centers. Their selling proposition has always been to offer a distraction-free environment in which every element, from conference room design to furnishings to staffing to technology, has a single purpose...

The partnership of site selection firm HelmsBriscoe and online meeting management firm StarCite pairs two fast companies to create a new business model--"bricks and clicks," in the words of Roger Helms, HB president and CEO. "We are the bricks,"...

Employees at the Timberland Co., an outdoor-shoe and apparel manufacturer headquartered in Stratham, N.H., like to jump feet-first into community volunteer work. It's part of their corporate culture--and a major reason Timberland consistently...