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.
After a particularly devastating hurricane season in 2004, Visit Florida, the state’s tourism marketing arm, came up with a reassuring idea: free meeting insurance for groups booking the state in August, September, or October when the storms are...
What do Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and meeting professionals Mike Burke, CMP, and Dale Fisher, CMP, have in common? While none of them belongs to a terrorist organization, airline personnel have stopped each because their names are the same as...
Cisco Systems, the San Jose, Calif.–based technology giant, has agreed to buy WebEx, a leading provider of webconferencing and online meeting technology, for about $3.2 billion...
Hilton Hotels Corp. on March 15 relaunched its online booking tool for small meetings. In addition to a live inventory of room blocks, e-Events now allows planners to book meeting space, food and beverage, and audiovisual equipment at 2,300 North...
Ambassadors International Inc., Newport Beach, Calif., will acquire Windstar Cruises from Holland America Line, a unit of Carnival Corporation & plc. Windstar Cruises is a luxury cruise line featuring three small ships: the 312-passenger Wind...
The Dermatology Nurses’ Association, which enjoyed near-record attendance at its 25th annual convention, used the anniversary as a springboard to market the meeting...
Officials at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority are grappling with the timeline for the multi-million dollar renovation of the city’s convention center...
