The Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau has doubled its sales staff for meetings and incentives to 15, including 10 salespeople dedicated to handling bookings for the Hawaii Convention Center. Staff members are based in Honolulu, San Diego, San...

When Global Events Partners (GEP), a consortium of 38 destination management companies in the United States and abroad, redesigned its Web site, it put a little of the human touch in its online requests for proposals, its core e-commerce service...

What's the best way to get management motivated to invest in training? Get a critical product development project into a whole lot of trouble. As the 19th-century intellectual Dr. Samuel Johnson said to his biographer Boswell, "Depend upon it, sir...

Better Searches, Fewer Hooks For event planners who have a pretty good idea which professional speakers they're considering, SpeakersDirect.com (www.Speakers Direct.com) is just about an ideal Web site--or could be if the involvement of its...

Computer and tech shows are flat, says TradeshowWeek. The 89 shows in its "Eighth Annual Computer & Electronics Show Report" averaged less than a 1 percent increase in number of exhibiting firms and net square feet in 1999. But 13-year-old...

Seemingly overnight, distance learning has become the hot topic. And managers are under pressure to spend, to save, to digitize, to evolve. The problem: Despite technological advances, it is still difficult to implement an engaging, effective...

During the day, Washington, DC-based cor-porate lawyer Reggie Aggarwal negotiated billion-dollar deals for Internet start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. On nights and weekends, he was creating a local coalition for high-tech CEOs from India, for...

With Islandia, N.Y.-based software giant Computer Associates Inc. as an annual visitor, the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans makes sure it keeps up on its connectivity. We're pleased to report that the lesson they learned back when the...

The Case for the Training Enterprise Many corporations have transformed their meeting planning departments from cost centers to profit centers, with event planners in effect selling their services to the departments that need them. Running...

Reinvent Training: Strategic, Not Reactive ...