NEW AND IMPROVED Hyatt has been selected to manage the new $217 million headquarters hotel across the street from Denver's Colorado Convention Center. The 1,100-room hotel will serve the center, which is expanding to 600,000 square feet of...

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The New Rules of Sponsorship The IRS has proposed new rules to determine whether corporate sponsorship of an event is subject to tax as unrelated business income. Here's the deal...

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IAEM CONFERENCE REVIEWS DOT-COM DEMISE "What a difference a year makes," said Fast Company co-founder and editor William Taylor, back for a repeat keynote presentation at the annual meeting of the International Association for Exhibition...

Hoteliers have complained for years about paying commissions to site selection companies. Now, Ritz-Carlton has taken action by capping commissions. Will other hotels follow suit...

Medical Meetings and its five sister magazines in The Meetings Group were recently acquired by Intertec Publishing. In a getting-to-know-you meeting, one of the new execs asked me what I considered to be my most valuable source of information in...

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