When the recession hit in late 2008, William Pate, president and chief executive officer of the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau, surveyed the meetings landscape for opportunities—and found them in Washington, D.C. “We decided to focus on...

The Healthcare Information Management Systems Society recently became the first association to lease year-round exhibit space at the Nashville Medical Trade Center—a permanent exhibition space being built in Nashville. ...

South Africa Tourism predicts more than half a million visitors will travel to the country during the four weeks of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. And the country has spent four years and $5 billion getting ready for them...

The Brussels-based Union of International Associations has just released its International Meeting Statistics report for the year 2009. UIA has conducted research, monitoring, and information-gathering on international organizations, international...

Though international travel to the United States was up 15 percent in the first two months of 2010 over the same period in 2009, it will take a lot more positive news to reverse a 10-year downward trend, characterized as the “lost decade” by Roger...

As images of spreading oil plumes, devastated Gulf Coast communities, and dead seabirds fill our TV screens, it’s easy to warp back and forth between a sense of futility and an urge to assign responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe...

Smart Strategies are Key to Tackling Inevitable Surprises

This may sound like a no-brainer, but it's really not: Are you trying to disseminate information, or provide education, through your activities? Check out this post by Jeff Hurt. I was reminded of one of the final sessions at GAME on Tuesday, when...

Every time I heard the latest CEJA report mentioned at the GAME meeting this week in Montreal, it was accompanied by head shakes and groans. And of course, Dr. Stossel practically snorted in disgust at the thought of the most recent iteration, and...