Las Vegas-based GES Exposition Services and Melville Exhibition Services of London will be sharing their sales and service personnel, client services technologies, and other resources in a new strategic partnership, announced in mid-July...

Look Who's Talking PowerPoint's basic sophistication is no longer a novelty; you can't faze attendees with a fancy fade or colorful graphic. However, the developer world is busily building new tools to keep PowerPoint hot. One of the most unusual...

You could say that the 11th annual CommunicAsia99 show was a classic confrontation between fear and greed. There was reason enough for fear: The Southeast Asian conference business has, to put it mildly, been in a slump since mid-1997, when the...

Remember Ajenis--the product that was promised to solve many of the communication problems between hoteliers and planners by allowing the electronic exchange of meeting data? It's several years now after the initial launch projections, but the...

I couldn't have said it better: "It didn't begin to feel like I was part of the association until I came to the Summit. This is the shot in the arm I need to get through the year." This from a first-time attendee at the annual meeting of the...

With 2.4 million square feet of exhibition space, the World Expo Center in Osceola County, central Florida, was supposed to be the nation's biggest convention center. At least that was the plan announced last year by a development team that...

How targeted, regional incentives make Top Guns of Compaq resellers. Compaq Computer Corp.'s acquisition spree in the past two years is, in many ways, a plus for the Houston company. But because it's a challenge for the company's resellers, it's...

Byte off enough so your clients always have something to chew might be the theme of Seattle's Washington State Convention & Trade Center, where physical and technological expansion grow together...

Are you a little nervous about that first event of the new millennium? Is there a chance the Y2K "bug" will force attendees to cancel or your venue to operate at less than 100 percent? Will the AV equipment quit and the lights go out...

Imagine that you have a great car that suits your lifestyle. Only it has one teeny problem. It breaks down at 11 a.m. every day. Like clockwork. Although it works in general, its lapses, understandably, leave you dissatisfied...