Hungry for the Good Old Days — I'm willing to wait in long airport security lines without a whimper and submit to wanding by a guy who seems to enjoy it a tad too much. They can take my nailclippers and just about anything else they want — all I...
Labor union horror stories are a lot like belly buttons: Everybody's got one. And like those little indentations, they're getting a lot of exposure these days as the proliferation of convention centers heats up the competition for meetings and...
Need to put together a meeting in a hurry? Dolce International, a Montvale, N.J.-based conference center management company, launched a program in October that promises a response to meeting planners' inquiries within 30 minutes and a proposal...
The second annual eHealthcare Leadership Awards have been announced by eHealthcare Strategy & Trends Inc., an Internet-based publication. More than 700 entries were received from a wide range of health care organizations, online health...
The National Conference Center, Lansdowne, Va., has completed a $29 million renovation. The property includes 950 upgraded guest accommodations, 250 meeting rooms, test labs, and a conference hall. All guest rooms, including 78 new Executive Club...
For the skinny on the conference center business, Dave Arnold's your man. Arnold, an executive vice president with PKF Consulting in Philadelphia, spends his days tracking trends in conference center development and operations. We asked him to...
The “Factors Affecting the Decision to Attend an Out-of-Town CME Meeting” chart in the “Annual Physician Preferences Survey” in the January/February issue, page 44, has a presentation error. The numbers are not percentages; they are Likert scale...
What is it that brings groups from organizations like Merck, the Harvard School of Public Health, GlaxoSmithKline, Transnasal Endoscopy, and Pfizer to a quaint little ski village named Stowe? Sure, there are Vermont's famous mountains, and the...