New Orleans was a little on the cool side at the end of January, but the Hyatt Regency-vacated just the day before by the National Football League-was hot with the friction that comes when new ideas are tossed back and forth. Much, though not all...

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IF you think attendees are risk-averse and litigious when it comes to themselves, wait until you see how protective they are of their kids. You may already know. There's been a marked increase in the number of meeting attendees bringing kids along...

The Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Professional Education Conference, held in January in San Francisco, was the largest in the conference's 20-year history, attracting 2,054 attendees. This year's meeting broke the 1994 record of 1,731...

UltraRes, the new automated reservations system launched by The Hotel Industry Switch Company (THISCO), received a major boost recently when the International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus (IACVB) endorsed the product as a...

Maybe it's the weather (300 days of sunshine a year), or the lifestyle and reasonable cost of living. Whatever the reason, desert communities in Nevada, Arizona, and California have become favorite places for business development, residential...

The upcoming European Incentive & Business Travel & Meetings Exhibition, to be held May 13 to 15 at Geneva's Palexpo Exhibition Centre, will be a very different-and significantly larger-event from the first EIBTM in 1988...

Competitive Profiling Hillary Rodham Clinton tells the story of how, while a student at Wellesley in 1969, she attended a Harvard Law School function, met a distinguished professor there, and said she was considering Harvard "and its competition"...

The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association (HSMAI) is offering the first Affordable Meetings West, April 16 to 17, at the San Jose (CA) McEnery Convention Center. HSMAI will continue to hold its annual national conference every September on...

Crack open the brochure for a medical conference and you are just about guaranteed to find a symposium on the schedule. In fact, you may find many. What makes this form so popular among medical meeting organizers? Probably the many admonishments...