While the Australian Tourist Commission's www.australia.com serves the leisure traveler well, it's not much use to a serious meeting planner. ATC has remedied the e-information gap with its new www.meetings.australia.com...
Quality, as opposed to quantity, may best describe Meeting Professionals International's Professional Education Conference held January 20 to 22 in Honolulu. The quality was found in three days of seminars addressing changes in the meeting...
“At Nortel Networks, our tagline is ‘At the heart of the Internet,’ so we'd look pretty silly if we didn't have all the latest and greatest technology for running meetings and events,” says Carolyn Pund, CMP, CMM, senior manager, integrated...
We basked for so long in the glow of an ever-expanding economy and a strong meeting market that planners and hoteliers may have forgotten what a buyer's market is like. And many haven't forgotten — they never knew. Anybody who has been in the...
Nobody has been hurt in a terrorist attack on a convention center — not yet, anyway. And if the Safety and Security Task Force organized by the International Association of Assembly Managers (www.iaam.org) succeeds in its assignment, no one will...
The second annual Meetings Visions conference, held December 6 to 10 in Wailea, Maui, brought senior event planners together with technology experts for an intensive look at new technologies. The bottom line: Virtual meetings — whether via video...
The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990 to ensure that, regardless of their capabilities, everyone — including meeting attendees — should be treated fairly and equally. But just what, under the act, is specifically required of...
Is there a place left for in-house logistics planners? Not at Nortel Networks. In fact, “The only events people at Nortel are vendor managers. There aren't any logistics planners here anymore,” says Caroline Pund, the company's senior manager...
If you're the type who thumbs through Bartlett's to find a great quote to spice up your marketing presentation, consider a time-saver from Santa Clara, Calif.-based Crystal Graphics. The company has produced a computer plug-in that allows users to...
