In the national spirit of resolve, we've heard every American official, from the president to Rudy Giuliani to the heads of convention bureaus, urge a return to normalcy. Shop, see a musical, travel by air, have a meeting. If we stay home, they...
You've nailed down the venue, secured the hotel rooms, booked the speakers, and signed the contracts. But as we learned so graphically on September 11, some things are beyond even the best planner's control...
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Even though the annual RSA Security Conference is owned and operated by Bedford, Mass.-based RSA Security Inc., it has, through astute marketing, moved steadily away from being a corporate conference and toward being an industrywide event for the...
The go-go dot-com era produced a glut of hype about the potential of new technologies to redefine the event industry, but amid all that chaff are kernels of genuine value that, in the wake of September 11, seem particularly important...
Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, made the nightly news in September 2000 when the World Bank and International Monetary Fund met at Prague Congress Centre. Lost in the reporting on the antics of anti-globalization protesters was the fact...
Two months ago, a planner overly concerned with security issues might be branded as paranoid. As of September 11, anyone not focused on those issues risks accusations of negligence. “Our safe cocoon has been broken,” says Patti Roscoe, chairman of...
Despite the projection by show manager Hall-Erickson that The Motivation Show, which includes the Incentive Travel and Meeting Exposition, held October 9 to 11 in Chicago, would suffer only a 3 percent cancellation rate by exhibitors, the show...
I used to be excited about Comdex. I'd look at that 200,000-plus attendance figure and think, “Gee, it's like the population of Rochester, N.Y., moves into town for a week and a half.” Then I found out about CeBIT, where the equivalent of the...
