SEPTEMBER 11, NEW YORK CITY. “WHEN THE first planes hit and we heard about the Pentagon, the feeling of not being in control was overwhelming,” says Lynne Tiras, CMP, president of Houston-based International Meeting Managers Inc., echoing what so...
To launch its new device for heart failure management, Minneapolis-based Medtronic planned a two-day training for reps at a San Diego hotel. Business as usual — except that terrorists attacked the U.S. about two weeks before the launch. Medtronic...
Back in March — months before 9/11 — the nation's nursing leaders convened the first meeting of the International Nursing Coalition for Mass Casualty Education. Recognizing that nurses would be on the front lines in the event of a national...
Convention and visitors bureaus across the country are reporting that medical meetings and convention business is for the most part holding strong for 2002. “We have 27 citywides booked for next year, and about half of those are medical or medical...
As anthrax was discovered in U.S. Capitol office buildings in mid-October, the American College of Emergency Physicians was in the middle of its annual scientific assembly in Chicago. The sessions on bioterror and disaster preparedness — usually a...
As of this writing, in October, travel of all sorts has been severely impacted by the fear and loathing which are among the legacies of the heinous terrorist crimes of September 11, 2001. Should this become a long-term phenomenon, marketers of CME...
Meetings revenues make up a hefty chunk of an association's budget — one-third of associations say their meetings revenue constitutes 20 to 40 percent of their organization's total income, and many more say it could go as high as 50 percent or...
When Merck Inc. opened its merckmedicus.com Web site in June, it enlisted Harris Interactive, a market research firm, to survey 101 physicians about their use of Web sites in general and to compare the Merck site to other sites. Unsurprisingly...
Following a brief rush of cancellations in mid- to late September, the pace of bookings for pharmaceutical events quickly resumed...