"The room gap is happening and it's getting worse. We've got to blow up our current practices," said Christine Shimasaki, CMP, executive vice president of sales and marketing, San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau. She spoke at a packed session...
Annette Meyer, meetings and events manager, American Rental Association, Moline, Ill., was delighted to hear she'd won a vacation package for two just for filling out the 2002 Inner Circle Award ballot she found in the pages of Association...
A new kind of contract is shooting holes in the way business is being done between meeting planners and hotels. “Bulletproof contracts,” tightly written, highly definitive contracts, are heavily weighted toward hotels and are growing increasingly...
Midsize (or second-tier) cities and their CVBs offer religious meeting planners a new array of convention center facilities and lots of negotiability in these recessionary times. Religious conventions that appreciate a little extra attention can...