Step back just two months before it was scheduled to open, and an observer might be forgiven for thinking the XI International Conference on AIDS, held in Vancouver, BC, from July 7 to 12, was a disaster waiting to happen. Imagine: Nearly 14,000...

With 50,000 healthcare professionals working at the Texas Medical Center, one can draw the conclusion that every medical association in existence probably has a member-and maybe an expert-right here in our own backyard," says Debra Hall...

Hotel room taxes in San Francisco jumped two percent in July to 14 percent. The new monies will repay a lease revenue bond issued by the city to build a 300,000-square-foot addition to the Moscone Convention Center Complex, bringing it to a total...

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You have the details of your hotel or convention center meeting under contract. Yet the success of your meeting may well depend on the satisfactory performance of vendors. Let's review some of the common issues-the nuts and bolts-of vendor...

The largest enclosed shopping and entertainment complex in America has become a destination in its own right. The Mall of America in Bloomington, MN has recently added UnderWater World, a 1.2-million-gallon interactive, multisensory aquarium and...

What do successful continuing professional education programs have in common? Are the qualities one expects to find in successful programs the ones that have actually helped them climb to the top? How are those success-ful programs similar to one...

PGI, an Arlington, VA&shyp;based global events, entertainment, exhibitions, and business communications company, purchased Regency Productions, an event production and entertainment marketing subsidiary of Hyatt Corporation...

After 34 years as Boston's leading convention sales professional, Paul Lanigan, senior convention sales manager at The Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau, retired at the end of March. Lanigan leaves having solicited and booked a...