New Orleans is suffering through an outburst of deadly violence as the city gets set to host next week’s Meeting Professionals International Professional Education Conference...
If there was a common theme at The Special Event 2007, held last week in Los Angeles, it was that this industry, which started out as a cottage industry (or a "garage industry," as insiders like to describe it) has finally evolved into a...
Within the next two years, Pennsylvania expects to see the opening of five casinos, including two waterfront casinos in Philadelphia, less than 60 miles from the East Coast’s premiere gambling destination of Atlantic City, N.J...
Following in the footsteps of British Airways, Air France has reached an agreement with Verified Identity Pass to sponsor a Registered Traveler program at JFK International Airport’s Terminal 1, which is expected to start screening passengers as...
At the Professional Convention Management Association’s annual meeting this week in Toronto, a new online tool to measure meeting performance was introduced, with PCMA members getting exclusive access through September 2007...
Marking its one-year anniversary, the meetings industry listserv called MeCo, short for the Meetings Community, is launching a new feature called Chat Lessons 1.0 for its growing online community...
The Hawai`i Visitors and Convention Bureau and SMG Hawai`i, which manages the Hawai`i Convention Center, have joined forces to launch BusinessAloha.com, a new destination Web site dedicated to meeting planners’ needs in the Hawaiian islands...
They came to town bearing chocolate-covered macadamia nuts and news of the island. Recently three women from Oahu’s tourism industry met with members of the press in Boston to update them on Hawaii happenings of interest to meeting planners and...
Last week Gerard J. “Jordy” Tollett announced that he is resigning his post as president and CEO of the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau to “pursue other ventures.” The GHCVB executive committee accepted his offer to serve as a cons...
With my new position as editor of Association Meetings, I no longer will be able to maintain this lovely Capsules blog. Fortunately, there are others out there covering CME and pharma topics better than I. Some of my favorites are...
