Check this out: Web 2.0 Begins to Sprout in Travel, from Hospitality Net. (Here's a primer on what Web 2.0 is all about: Basically, it refers to Web sites that let the users collaborate and create online content.) Hospitality and travel sites...

To attend the Creative Commons briefing on copyright basics, you have to "go" to a place called Kula 4 in Second Life, a 3-D virtual world. I've been meaning to check out Second Life, which I hear is really an amazing online world. Now that...

According to Expo magazine, here are the best new shows of 2006. Congratulations to all, and a special congrats to Tim Bourquin and his TC New Media team for winning the trade and consumer show category for their Podcast and Portable Media Expo. I...

My Capsules co-blogger Anne Taylor-Vaisey just sent me this link to a story about how two movie theaters in Japan are going to add scents to movies to enhance the experience...

For government meeting planners and those who have a large number of government-employed attendees: The General Services Administration has made some changes to its 2006 per diem rates. From the bulletin...

Here's some good advice for those who are e-mail marketing their webinars. Actually, it's good advice for those e-mail marketing just about anything.

Religious meeting planners who are looking to find the best destination for their annual conventions/conferences might find this site useful: American Ethnic Geography: A Cultural Geography of the United States and Canada. It allows you to see a...

Of course, the hospitality industry is neck-deep in its interests in immigration reform—how could it not be, when so many who work in hotels are not U.S. natives. So it's no surprise to see J.W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr., chairman and chief executive...

That's what this USAToday story says, anyway. While I have had some great meals at hotel restaurants, and they do seem to be getting better all the time, there are still some bland, boring, and all-around awful hotel restaurants. The weird thing...