Some 33 educational seminars will be available at the 7th Annual Affordable Meetings Exposition & Conference, September 4 to 5 in Washington, DC. Sponsored by the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI), the program...

Corporate Notes A Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy merger, announced from Ciba headquarters in Basel, Switzerland on March 7, was approved by shareholders of both firms on April 24. The new firm, under the new name of Novartis, will become the third largest...

...

Billing itself as the "first World Wide Web business community for the events industry," Event Source (http://eventsource.com) was launched in April on the World Wide Web by DirectSource Communications and the International Association of...

GRAND OPENING OF SALT PALACE CENTER By Patricia Wargocki The opening of the newly expanded Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City was marked with a four-day celebration for the grand opening of the facility, including fireworks, folk...

The largest enclosed shopping and entertainment complex in America has become a destination in its own right. The Mall of America in Bloomington, MN has recently added UnderWater World, a 1.2-million-gallon interactive, multisensory aquarium and...

More than 800 association executives and vendors turned out for the second annual technology conference of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), cosponsored by MCI and the Nasdaq Stock Market. It was a mind-boggling display of...

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. The organization has achieved truly global status...

...

Training for procedures carried out by nurses and other medical professionals is also being computerized. Beginning last fall, for example, nursing students at the State University of New York in Plattsburgh began using software from High...