The collapse of some concrete flooring in Pittsburgh’s David L. Lawrence Convention Center February 5 forced the facility to close temporarily and had several groups scrambling to find different venues or dates for their meetings...

DigitalNow, a professional development program for association executives, produced by Fusion Productions and the Disney Institute, will feature Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikipedia project, as one of four general session speakers when it takes...

Las Vegas wasn’t a top destination for healthcare meetings 10 years ago, but now it reigns as the most popular destination for healthcare meetings, according to the Healthcare Convention and Exhibitors Association’s 2007 Industry Research Report...

Despite the fact that international travel to the U.S. is down 17 percent since 2001 overall, international attendance at association meetings and conventions has not declined, according to a new study commissioned by the Professional Convention...

The Accreditation Council for CME’s new accreditation criteria were top of mind for many of the 1,820 attendees at the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education 2007 Annual Conference, held in January in Phoenix. Speaking at several sessions...

Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, already one of the larger meeting properties in the U.S., will get 400,000 square feet of new meeting and convention space and an adjacent new 400-room all-suite hotel, according to a proposal...

The move to healthier foods is gaining momentum...

We’ve heard it again and again: The avian flu outbreak among birds in Asia, Europe, and other parts of the world has a small but potentially disastrous chance of creating a deadly pandemic in humans. If the H5N1 virus mutates in a way that allows...

Jennie Campbell, CMP, CMM, PMP, chief administrative officer, marketing and business development for investment company Stewart Capital LLC, Metairie, La., lost everything she owned in Hurricane Katrina—including her coveted 1998 Tomorrow’s Leader...