While a 27-year-old association is considered relatively young, it’s not unusual to find those that conduct their annual meetings the same way year after year, becoming stale despite their relative youth. Not so for the International Association...

After filing for bankruptcy less than two weeks ago, Aloha Airlines announced that March 31, 2008, was its last day of passenger operations. The second-largest Hawaii carrier cited an inability to generate sufficient revenue and “unfair...

Sue Tinnish, a professional meeting planner, trainer, and facilitator, and an active volunteer member of the Educational Advisory Council of APEX, the Accepted Practices Exchange initiative, has been named the director of APEX. An initiative of...

The Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort has been ordered to pay a company more than $200,000 in damages and fees as a result of a corporate event that went seriously awry...

At the Fourth Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, held last week in Baltimore, speakers presented new eye-opening statistics and offered valuable insights into establishing a global meetings program...

Last week, the Transportation Security Administration expanded a pilot program launched in February that allows travelers to select an airport security lane based on their level of experience with airport regulations...

In the first of a series of webinars produced by the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education, a panel of CME leaders addressed ways to incorporate CME into the “big picture” at their organizations...

The Massachusetts State Legislature is considering a bill that would ban gifts from pharmaceutical companies to physicians. If approved, Massachusetts would be the first state to ban gifts outright, according to an article in The Boston Globe...

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Two major online meeting registration providers—San Francisco–based Certain Software Inc. and Brisbane, Australia–based Amlink Technologies announced a merger last week...