PCMA is offering a free issues forum on international travel issues for meeting attendees and exhibitors on February 23. Called, “Visas, Customs, and Customer Service: Making Life Easier for International Meeting Attendees and Exhibitors,” the...

While I'm feeling cranky, I might as well crank on. Why do hotels always put the towels on the wall farthest from the shower? I hate putting the towels on the toilet, but I hate even more slip-sliding across the room to grab one. And no in-room...

And you wonder why attendees name travel hassles as one of their top reasons for not attending a conference...my experience yesterday was a case in point (look out, rant coming on). ...

The opening general session speaker at this year’s HCEA meeting is a standout—a commedian named Greg Schwen, who obviously did a lot of research for this gig. I have never seen a presentation that was so customized—he goofed on this industry’s...

According to a recent study by Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown and Russell, things are looking good for meetings. "The meeting market is likely to grow in the next 12 months. Corporate meeting planners are planning to book an additional 4.2 off-site...

Preferred Hotels and Resorts recently sent around a press release outlining their latest enticement to get planners to book with their properties: ...

Stephanie Downs at ConferBlog brought this one to my attention: a new, wireless videoconferencing system that she says will "the concept of the 'meeting room' goes out of the window, literally." ...

Speaker Joel Saltzman sent me some articles today that actually made me stop and think. In one of them, he asks, "How are you having fun today?" ...

I'm so excited that I just have to share our good news with you--we just found out that Medical Meetings is a finalist for a Neal Award for Best News Coverage for an article I wrote last fall called Stark Raving Mad. ...