It was back to school for the 300 registrants at the Second Annual Professional Convention Management Association's (PCMA) Summer Conference, held in Cincinnati, June 20 to 22. Registration was down slightly over last year's inaugural conference...

While you're here, check out another event-related site:<> * Billing itself as the "first World Wide Web business community for the events industry,"Event Source (http://event source.com) was launched in April on the World Wide Web by...

Notable Meetings Sign of the times: The American Academy of Otolaryngology-p;Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) will feature 25 practice management courses at its 100th annual meeting, to be held from September 29 to October 2 at the Washington (DC)...

Medical meeting planners are clamoring for information about technology-trying to keep up with the latest in advances on videoconferencing and other services that enhance the education of healthcare professionals (see cover story, page 14)-as well...

The growth of Meeting Professionals International (MPI) as an international organization was a recurring theme of the fourth annual Professional Education Conference (PEC) in Lyon, France in May. MPI has achieved truly global status, with...

Some 33 educational seminars will be available at the 7th Annual Affordable Meetings Exposition & Conference, September 4 to 5 in Washington, DC...

She calls herself "the pig princess." She reads pig magazines, wears pig pins, displays a Miss Piggy doll in her office, and has a pig-shaped doorstop. "I feel very attached to these animals," says Arlene Davie, executive vice president, Travel...

We were going to use a fiberoptic land line to handle the video transmission, but there was a nursing strike the week before the conference, and the cable installers wouldn't cross the picket line. So we brought in a truck with a dish and bounced...

The Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) has appointed William J. Myers, CAE, CMP, formerly vice president and convention manager of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), as its chief operating officer, a newly created...

The long-awaited Delta addition to the Opryland Hotel Convention Center in Nashville arrived on June 1, right on time. Some 3.7 million room-nights are already contracted through the year 2013 at what is now the world's largest hotel/convention...