Many hotel and convention center contract provisions can be difficult to understand, even for an experienced meeting planner, but the most confusing language is generally found under the heading “indemnification” or “hold harmless.” ...
Sheila Buckley and her staff at the Learning Disabilities Association of America, Pittsburgh, had to do some quick thinking and fast acting to keep its annual meeting from being canceled after concrete flooring at the venue, the David L. Lawrence...
The American Academy of Family Physicians last year started developing its own crisis plan to deal with a possible avian flu pandemic. AAFP felt it was important to have a pandemic crisis plan so that the association would have the resources to...
Travel, Trade, and privacy groups are heavily criticizing a Department of Homeland Security program that, for the past several years, has been used to mine, store, and assess the personal data of all travelers, including U.S. citizens, entering or...
If a Company cancels a meeting contract, computing the actual losses to the hotel's business can be cumbersome. For that reason, most hotel contracts use the concept of “liquidated damages,” agreeing in advance what the damages will be if the...
According to a soon-to-be-released report that was conducted by Purdue University, meeting planners, on the whole, are not prepared to respond to disasters of any kind — from a strike, to a roof collapse, to a shooting — much less a flu pandemic...
