Have pitchers of water instead of bottled water, Many hotels charge $3 or more for bottled water.Caprice Caster, CMP, National Cable Vision Cooperative, Lenaxa, Kan. Order continental breakfasts and refreshment breaks a la carte instead of...
Ron Black has spent more time preaching (since he was 15), administering (serving as executive director for his denomination), and bicycling (he and wife Sandy are Gold Wing enthusiasts) than he has planning meetings, so his membership in RCMA is...
City officials in Rochester, Minn., this year lost what would have been the first national meeting of the American Veterans Association in their city. The event had been booked five years earlier, according to Brenda Riggott, executive director of...
E-conferencing spiked just before and after U.S. troops invaded Iraq, but it isn't like the stampede that came after the terrorist attacks of 2001. “If you go back to those days, I think we were all awestruck,” says Randy Salisbury, executive vice...
RCMA's 32nd World Conference & Exposition in January 2004 will convene in an outstanding city — Pittsburgh. Among its many attributes, Pittsburgh is a city of bridges. Appropriately, the theme of bridges is evident in the architecture of...
Georgia International Convention Center celebrated its grand opening June 9. The center, in College Park near Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, is a 400,000-square-foot facility with the largest ballroom in Georgia, at 40,000 square feet...
Late in the 1990s, San Jose did not have a keen interest in hosting the 3,000-person general assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). “There wasn't much incentive for the city to book conventions that far out or to commit large room blocks,”...
Martha Andres District Arrangements Coordinator Texas District The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod San Antonio ...