METCON (the Meetings and Exhibitions Technology Conference)--the first joint meeting of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA)--provided a forum for meeting planners...
"The Winds of Change" ... . . was the theme at SCMP's fall conference four years ago. At that time, corporate downsizing and outsourcing were more rumor than reality. Today I'm hard pressed to think of one friend or associate who hasn't been...
Until recently, checking into an American hotel was a trip to the land of conformity. Except for some regionally inspired resorts and some historic renovations, interiors showed little individuality. Once inside, a guest could be in any hotel...
Communicating Corporate Culture: Make it Memorable To make sure your worldwide employees understand and work within the corporate culture, develop a message that's memorable. Take global conference center company Dolce International, which created...
Meeting executives hire speakers to educate or to entertain; the best speakers do both. It has become common practice for organizations that retain speakers, be they professional or volunteer, to enter into agreements with them outlining the terms...
* Chicago's historic Silversmith Building is being transformed into the Crowne Plaza Chicago Silversmith. When the hotel opens in December, the ten-story, 1897 structure will have 143 guest rooms and meeting space for groups of up to 150 persons...
If you read this before June 22 (well, at least a week before), there might still be room for you to attend the Society of Incentive & Travel Executives' first University of The Americas in Charleston, SC at the beautiful Charleston Place...
Getting Started 1. Skip the phone tag and long-distance charges, and surf the Web. The major online service providers have travel forums with information about individual countries. Or, visit www.goeurope.com >, a European travel Web site. You...
Nowhere is a convention and visitors bureau's services more critical to corporate executives planning meetings than in the international arena. IACVB is learning this firsthand while planning its annual meeting, to be held July 17 to 22 in Hong...
