What medical and pharmaceutical/bioscience/medical device meeting planners and continuing medical education professionals need to know to plan meetings and CME activities for healthcare professionals.
The setting is pretty common: Megagigantic Pharmaceuticals has a product to launch, and so they hire Slick Communications to set up CME activities for them. Both Megagigantic and Slick understand what's required to ensure fair and balanced...
Many just hummed the theme to “Don Quixote” when the Convention Industry Council first brought up the idea of developing definitive best practices that could be standardized across the meeting industry five years ago. Now that the CIC has released...
The four hotels put out of commission by the September 11 attacks — the Marriott World Trade Center, Marriott World Financial Center, Millennium Hilton, and Embassy Suites Hotel New York City — represented close to 4 percent of Manhattan's total...
Lynn Pescherine, convention sales manager at the Hilton New York, lost her husband Michael in the September 11 attacks. Lynn gave birth to a baby boy on February 3, named Ryan Michael...
Animatronic alligators that wiggle their tails. Fog machines. Sound effects — frogs croaking, seagulls crying. No, it's not the set of sci-fi flick. It's the new Gaylord Palms, a resort and convention center a few miles from Walt Disney World in...
Hospital-based health care pros now can turn to the Web for information on diagnosing and treating rare infections and possible bioterrorist agents such as anthrax and smallpox. Touted as the first of its kind, the Web site — designed by...
We basked for so long in the glow of an ever-expanding economy and a strong meeting market that planners and hoteliers may have forgotten what a buyer's market is like. And many haven't forgotten — they never knew...
Linda Hrycaz, director of operations for the Keystone Symposia in Silverthorne, Colo., helps set up about 40 scientific symposia a year, most of them in conference centers set in the Rocky Mountains. For her, “the biggest piece is the ambience of...
