“It's not that I've changed the way I do things,” says Maureen Karon, CMP, CMM, global meeting manager for Deloitte Touche Tohamatsu, in New York, who plans many small meetings every year globally. “But I tend to pay more attention now to...
Since January, the U.S. dollar has dropped nearly 6 percent against the euro. And a volatile foreign currency exchange rate means planners might pay more for hotel rooms, ground transportation, and other services for many European events...
The American Society of Association Executives plans to relocate its 20005 annual meeting, originally scheduled for Los Angeles, and is soliciting bids from five U.S. cities in the East and “mid-East” to host that convention, says Michael S. Olson...