Following a survey of its members' emergency procedures, the International Association of Conference Centers recently issued a 55-page preliminary white paper on this timely subject. The paper is the product of IACC's recently formed Emergency...

Representatives from American, Delta, and United airlines outlined new policies, procedures, and regulations at a session held during the Professional Conference Management Association convention in January. Here's what they had to say...

Walt Disney World kicked off its “100 Years of Magic” celebration in October to honor Walt Disney's birth 100 years ago. A series of special events will take place through the end of 2002 at each of the four theme parks. Here are our top six picks...

Last summer the editor of MM's sister magazine Insurance Conference Planner told us that her husband, Joe, had cancer. In facing this crisis, Joe and Regina redefined the word proactive. Joe built a Web site (http://orbit.unh.edu/cancer) for...

“Yes, this was the most difficult crisis I have faced in 26 years of association and convention management. But, I've been strengthened by the fact that our team did it.” ...

Cell phones and Blackberries (wireless PDAs) aren't welcome at the National Conference Center, and there are no plans to change that...

“IF YOU THINK ABOUT A TYPICAL HOSPITAL OR MEDICAL school or medical society that's looking at this panoply of communication companies, they don't really know what they do, they don't really trust them, they think they came right out of the...

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The setting is pretty common: Megagigantic Pharmaceuticals has a product to launch, and so they hire Slick Communications to set up CME activities for them. Both Megagigantic and Slick understand what's required to ensure fair and balanced...

Many just hummed the theme to “Don Quixote” when the Convention Industry Council first brought up the idea of developing definitive best practices that could be standardized across the meeting industry five years ago. Now that the CIC has released...