Oh, this post on Creating Passionate Users—A Crash Course in Adult Learning—is a must-print-and-send-to-everyone-involved-in-meetings thing. Author Kathy Sierra romps through the basics, with lots of great visuals, and gives you a good time while...

For travel and hospitality, here's USA Today's pick of the five biggest trends in 2006...

From Epicurious, this year's best and worst food and beverage trends of 2005. The best of the best, IMHO...

Somebody forgot to ask who else was in town. That's the only way I can imagine that adolescents on a five-day soccer tournament and a swingers party ended up at the same hotel, the Crowne Plaza Hotel-Airport in Orlando. From the Orlando Sentinel...

These challenges from the International Society of Hospitality Consultants seem pretty on the mark to me. Here are just the top five (for explanations and the rest of the list, click here)...

In anticipation of slowed growth in tourism due to high oil prices for us frozen northern folks who have to save our pennies for utilities instead of vacations (boo!), Visit Florida is concentrating its efforts on getting the convention market to...

This is the week for trend spotting, pontificating, and crystal-ball gazing. Here's Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown & Russell's top hospitality trends. Among the things that meeting planners could take heed of...

This guy tells what it was like on the ...

Here's a handy tip for cocktail receptions: Use tall glasses. According to a study in the British Medical Journal (as reported by ZDNet)...