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Reporting from one of my colleagues: Trade Show Exhibitor Association and National Trade Productions just announced in a phone press conference that TSEA's trade show, TS2, has been sold to NTP. Cost of acquisition is "proprietary" information...
For those who have signed up for the weekly e-mail update, a clarification. When I said, "With a full-moon eclipse, even the planets seem to be aligned for a once-in-a-lifetime win for Boston's beleaguered baseball team," I meant from 1918 to now...
According to a press release, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. and HP "announced a broad technology agreement that will enable Starwood to deliver an improved guest reservation experience to its customers around the globe. ...
That's what Joe Brancatelli, editor and publisher of JoeSentMe.com, the former executive editor of Frequent Flyer magazine, travel advisor of Travel Holiday, and contributing editor to Travel + Leisure, wants to do (subscription required to read...
Writer, speaker, and consultant Jeffrey Caufaude has interesting things to say about balancing content and adult learning needs. Among his main points: ...
The Society for Neuroscience is breaking attendance records in San Diego this week, according to a press release. We're talking 31,000 attendees and more than 60,000 room nights here. My husband is at the show, and he said last night that the...
Ft. Lauderdale is getting pretty proactive about stemming potential meeting losses due to this fall's awful hurricane season. In fact, it's giving away space at the Broward County Convention Center in August and September to any group that commits...
Back in March, I posted about Marcie, the puppy that The Fairmont Washington, D.C., is raising for Guiding Eyes for the Blind. This morning, I just got an update--and, according to the hotel's director of public relations, Diana Bulger, Marcie got...