Two months before the 2002 Pan American Congress of Rheumatology, scheduled for June 23 to 27 in Caracas, Venezuela, meeting organizers had to move the conference — not to another convention center or headquarters hotel, or even to another city in...
Now medical meeting planners who work for tax-exempt organizations have another set of regulations to consider. The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service last spring came out with their final rules relating to the tax treatment of...
With fewer meetings and attendees to go around, convention and visitor bureaus — which sell their city's convention centers, which in turn fill downtown hotels with out-of-town attendees — are feeling the pinch. Because attendance at trade shows...