HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS Thomas R. Schedler, CAE, has been appointed executive director of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons, based in Park Ridge, IL. Most recently, Schedler was president of Schedler and Associates, a management...

Some 250 members from ten meeting industry organizations brought their message to Capitol Hill on Legislative Action Day in March. Spearheaded by Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the chief sponsor of the event, the group visited 65...

PGI, an Arlington, VAp;based events, entertainment, exhibitions, and business communications company, has acquired the Destination Showcase trade show from the International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus (IACVB). The events are...

The Mile-High City is looking like the come-back kid. With Denver's new Coors Field drawing crowds and giving a new lease on life to the city's Lower Downtown (LoDo) area, Denver International Airport's (DIA) baggage-handling problems finally...

The opening of the newly expanded Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City was marked with a four-day celebration for the grand opening of the facility, including fireworks, folk festivals, free concerts, a laser light show, a parade down...

When 5,000 attendees converge in Boston in August for the annual meeting of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), they will sample a generous slice of the best the city has to offer: an opening reception in historic Copley Square...

Having started only six years ago as a regional production company, Production Group International (PGI), headquartered in Arlington, VA, has grown outward and upward, adding new business lines in the meetings industry. Its latest acquisitions...

More than 800 association executives and vendors turned out for the second annual technology conference of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), cosponsored by MCI and the Nasdaq Stock Market. It was a mind-boggling display of...

Medical meeting planners know that special recreational events add sizzle-and value-to meetings. Who could forget an incentive trip that included snorkeling, scuba diving, skiing, in-line skating, boating, or a desert jeep ride? Yet new and...

Karen S. Jordan will be one of a handful of women to head a national association after she joins the International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus (IACVB) as president and CEO in September. Although Jordan shuns the label of female...