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.
With the dramatic increase in airfares in 1996, executives who plan meetings may be looking at the new year with less than great expectations. Yet many airline analysts expect fares to stabilize or decrease in 1997...
Slack, Inc., based in Thorofare, NJ, an association management company that has specialized in healthcare clients for 40 years, is now marketing to a wider range of clientele. As part of its new strategic plan, Slack has opened a Washington, DC...
The 12th annual BTC (Borsa Del Turismo Congressuals Ed Incentives), the Meetings, Conventions and Incentives Exchange, was held November 4 to 6 at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence, Italy, attracting approximately 6,000 visitors-a 25 percent...
International Scene The Radisson Watermark, Gold Coast in Surfer's Paradise, Australia opened in November with 411 rooms and meeting space for 240 persons...
The long-anticipated Meetings Exchange and Ajenis products will debut, in stages, at upcoming meetings, according to Ed Tromczynski, president, PlanSoft Ajenis, LP, based in Twinsburg, OH. The site selection database, one component of the Meetings...
The fourth annual survey of physician preferences in continuing medical education (CME) has several informational firsts. For the first time, we asked physicians to indicate all the ways in which they obtained CME credit. We also broke out data on...
Welcome baskets and pillow gifts are time-honored ways of showing your group their presence is appreciated. Locally made goods are an especially suitable way to extend any meeting's Hawaiian theme...
Affectionately dubbed the "Garden Isle," Kauai offers a peaceful escape from everyday life with abundant natural beauty. The northernmost of the Hawaiian islands, Kauai is actually the top of an undersea volcano. Mountainous and lush, the island...
In few places are the contrasts as bold as on the Big Island of Hawaii. Here, crystal waters crash against a shore of black lava and white coral. Lush rain forests dotted by 400-foot waterfalls lie only miles from the barren molten landscape...
For most of this century, tiny Lanai was known as Pineapple Island and was the private domain of the Dole Food Company, which used its 18,000 acres to lead the world in production of the sweet fruit. Dole still owns much of the island, but has...
