According to a post recently on the MeCo listserv, it looks like the housing pirates are still alive and well. You know, the folks who find your exhibitor and/or attendee list and try to market rooms to them for your show, sometimes posing as the...

Not surprisingly, the new Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Prince George's County, Md., is big. Really big. Or, as this reviewer in the Washington Post calls it, "ridonkulously huge." I'm not able to make it to the grand opening...

The top 10 cuisines of the world. Just the photos are making me hungry.

Here's an interesting risk management scenario: What would you do if one of your general session speakers was stabbed by an attendee after his presentation? That's what happened at the 10th International Conference on Science and Consciousness...

Do not click this link unless you have a lot of time to waste: 50 best comedy sketches of all time

Remember that story I posted about a few days ago about the Westin Casuarina charging attendees when the host of a meeting held last fall didn't pay up? Well, it looks like they're doing the right thing and refunding the charges to attendees'...

A lot of people don't, it would appear from reading this post on Joan Eisenstodt's blog. She outlines just a few of the ethically challenged scenarios planners and hospitality partners face all the time, and notes that many don't seem to...

I try to check out all the social networking stuff that's out there, seeing as it all likely has/will have meetings-related applications. I've been resisting Twitter, a micro-blogging application where you can tell others what you're doing minute...

I love it when someone takes something most of us give no thought to--say, room service menus--and give it some real attention. That's what Michael Chaffin does in this post on ways to jazz up room service menus. I like some of his suggestions...