When it's coming from meetings displaced from New Orleans, it is, according to this article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution...

According to an article in Promo magazine, the Society of Incentive & Travel Executives had a banner year in 2005. From the article...

I admit that I've received some strange things from CVBs, hotel chains, and other industry suppliers, but live snakes, rubber-scented candles, and umbrellas with holes in them? Not yet, thankfully! But according to Promo magazine, these are among...

I always thought that being successful could make you happy, but now it appears, according to a study from the American Psychological Association, it's really the other way around...

On Fast Company Now, Heath Row talks about a Wall Street Journal article (subscription req'd) on peer-recognition programs that are now making a comeback. Three mentioned in the article...

This is a powerful story about how Michael O. Smith, who until this month ran the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, kept things running during hurricane Katrina: Michael O. Smith, GM of the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, Stood Tall in the Chaos All Around...

The following folks will be honored with PCMA 2005 Achievement Awards at the annual meeting next month (from the press release)...

Who would have thought it? According to a press release, six major conventions and tradeshows—The American Baseball Coaches Association, the Mid-American Horticultural Trade Show, the International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Expo...

After analyzing the Mona Lisa with "emotion recognition" software developed with researchers at the University of Illinois, the experimenters "concluded that the subject was 83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry, New Scientist magazine...