I just read what I think is a great idea in a bit on Hotel-Online. It's about how, in the attempt to keep the personal touch in an era of increasing commoditization, hotels are trying to find innovative ways to make you feel welcomed, even when...

Betsy Bair, editorial director of The Meetings Group, wrote an interesting editorial in this week's MeetingsNet Extra e-newsletter about how strange it is that she, and I, and other industry magazine editors are getting so much air time on...

This article from eTurbo News gives me the willies: Air Travelers Stripped Bare with X-ray Machines. A snip...

Web strategy expert Philippa Gamse has written a proposal for a manifest on ChangeThis.com that could change the frustration level so many of us have when looking for info on the Web: Sites that just don't work the way people think. She has...

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Joyce Landry and Josephine Kling have just announced that they have reaquired Landry & Kling, the cruise agency they launched in 1982 and later sold. National Leisure Group was the latest owner. From a press release: ...

Sorry, I couldn't resist. The new Principles of Professional Performance just released from Professional Convention Management Association is just loaded with "p"s. It puts educational content into six categories: planning, people...

Meetings planners tend to get really ticked when people call them "party planners." It seems demeaning, somehow. So just imagine how special events planners--those who actually do plan the parties--feel when even their meetings bretheren don't...

From ASAE: "The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) has announced it will honor Colin Rorrie Jr., PhD, CAE, President and CEO, Meeting Professionals International (MPI), with its 2004 Key Award, and George Aguel, Senior Vice...

That's what David Shaw over at B or not 2B wants to know: ...