The four hotels put out of commission by the September 11 attacks — the Marriott World Trade Center, Marriott World Financial Center, Millennium Hilton, and Embassy Suites Hotel New York City — represented close to 4 percent of Manhattan's total...

Lynn Pescherine, convention sales manager at the Hilton New York, lost her husband Michael in the September 11 attacks. Lynn gave birth to a baby boy on February 3, named Ryan Michael...

Animatronic alligators that wiggle their tails. Fog machines. Sound effects — frogs croaking, seagulls crying. No, it's not the set of sci-fi flick. It's the new Gaylord Palms, a resort and convention center a few miles from Walt Disney World in...

Hospital-based health care pros now can turn to the Web for information on diagnosing and treating rare infections and possible bioterrorist agents such as anthrax and smallpox. Touted as the first of its kind, the Web site — designed by...

We basked for so long in the glow of an ever-expanding economy and a strong meeting market that planners and hoteliers may have forgotten what a buyer's market is like. And many haven't forgotten — they never knew...

Time to Help Our Own ...

Linda Hrycaz, director of operations for the Keystone Symposia in Silverthorne, Colo., helps set up about 40 scientific symposia a year, most of them in conference centers set in the Rocky Mountains. For her, “the biggest piece is the ambience of...

MEDICAL NOTE Battle of the Studies: Hospital accreditation is a poor predictor of the quality of patient outcomes, according to a new study by two University of Michigan School of Public Health researchers. The study, by Professors John R...

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The American Medical Group Association presented the annual Medical Group Preeminence Award to The Southeast Permanente Medical Group (TSPMG) at AMGA's National Conference on Physician Directed Health Care, being held February 21-23, 2002 in San...