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...

Any resort worth its salt is accustomed to handling special requests. Vegetarian meals? No sweat. Staff members dressed up as penguins? You've got it. Requests to accommodate the special needs of certain nonhuman attendees? No problem. (See how...

"To be involved with ASAE at this stage is a phenomenal opportunity," said Michael S. Olson, CAE, during a press conference where it was announced that he was the new president and CEO of the American Society of Association Executives in...

When more than 18,000 cancer specialists from around the world gathered in Los Angeles for the 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), held May 16 to 19, the media was there to greet them with microphones bristling...