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.
Airplane food: You can only call it haute cuisine because it's served at a haute of 35,000 feet. Given its functional nature, the best a traveler can hope for is good nutrition. Alas, that is only selectively true, according to the second annual...
In a policy letter issued last spring, the American Medical Association (AMA) stipulated that international conference sponsors wishing to have their meetings designated for Category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award (PRA)...
With little on-the-scene fanfare but a fair amount of premeeting lobbying, delegates at the Convention Liaison Council (CLC) approved a major restructuring of the organization at its November meeting in Fort Worth, TX...
Our future depends on our ability to be adept at both management and technology," announced American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) President R. William Taylor, CAE, at the general session of ASAE's first combined management and...
PICTURE the scene. It's several years before your organization's big meeting. You've just received the hotel's signed contract proposal incorporating all of the issues that you've negotiated with the property. All you have to do is counter-sign...
Our journey into high-yield marketing strategies began with a discussion of reach and frequency: The size and identity of the group to whom you are promoting your meeting, and the number of messages they receive about it. Next, we introduced the...
The Hickey Auditorium at the new Conference Center at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is as slick a meeting room as you will ever see, with just about every high-tech presentation device known to man, and a few that...
American Airlines has revised its zone fare pricing for group travel, making it less expensive and more flexible. The new fares range from $235 to $556, translating into an average price reduction of 20 percent. (Hawaii is more costly.) Saturday...
Convention Centers & Bureaus Jan Sharkey, director of meeting services with TEAM Management, a division of SLACK, Inc., has been appointed a member of the San Diego Convention Center Corporation and San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau...
The new year kicked off with two January conferences that offered hands-on cyberspace education-highlighting a trend at meeting planner industry conferences. Both the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) 41st Annual Meeting, and...
