In recent years, Denver seems to have gone from sleepy western town to boomtown, and as the millennium approaches, it continues in its boomtown mode. In November it broke ground on the $160 million Pepsi Center, a basketball and hockey arena that...

Securing Trademark Protection In the U.S., trademark rights arise when someone adopts and begins using a mark in commerce in connection with particular goods or services. Simply by being the first to use a particular trademark or service mark, one...

Brand New * The 2,914-room Paris-Las Vegas Casino Resort, Hilton's largest construction project ever, opens next to Bally's on the Las Vegas strip in late 1999. The Paris-themed property will include a 50-story replica of the Eiffel Tower. Meeting...

Medical Meetings' Annual M&D Awards program honors the 40 hotels, resorts, and conference centers chosen by our readers for merit and distinction in serving the needs of planners of continuing medical education seminars and medical conventions...

Consider this: During 1997, the Internet delivered more messages than did the U.S. Postal Service--and that load is expected to skyrocket to more than 7 trillion messages annually by the year 2000...

Health Care Sharon Cordry-Hutinett has been promoted to exhibit manager at the American Academy of Family Physicians in Kansas City, Mo. A 17-year veteran of the Academy, Cordry-Hutinett most recently served as administrative assistant to the...

Police snipers are poised on the hotel rooftops. Officers in riot gear line the street to the convention center. More than 100 animal rights demonstrators, carrying placards picturing tormented monkeys, crowd the convention center entrance. The ...

What gift could be tter meet an exec's needs than a reliable watch? Priscilla Majewski, executive director, American Association of Hip & Knee Surgeons, in Rosemont, Ill.,scored big when she booked her meetings at Inter-Continental Hotels and...

Right now there is more branding going on than during the glory days of cattle herding. If the trend continues, sometime in the 21st century there will be no more products and services, only brands. There are at least three factors driving this...

Mid-March found Steven Hacker buttonholing congressmen, senators, and aides in Washington, D.C. The top concern for the executive director for the International Association of Exposition Management? Air travel safety at the turn of the millennium...