As professional planners we have a moral and legal responsibility to be proactive rather than reactive with regard to anticipating risks and preparing emergency response plans. This has always been the case, although for many in our industry...

What religious meeting planners should consider ...

For more than 30 years, Virginia Lofft has broken new ground in the meeting industry, first as a journalist and then as a publisher. Her area of particular expertise became the international meetings market, and over the years, she created many...

The specter of Hurricane Michelle, forecast to hit the Yucatan Peninsula on November 4, the opening day of the International Congress and Convention Association general assembly in Cancun, Mexico, barely fazed conference attendees who had...

Dan Dancy, director of marketing for the American Public Works Association, is one of the increasing number of show marketing managers who are turning to online advertising to help drive trade show attendance. For the first time, he spent about 10...

When attendees convene in Tampa, Fla., next month at RCMA's 30th Anniversary Conference and Exposition, they will do so in a spirit of celebration, faith, and confidence, and they will come together under a theme, “Currents of Change,” that will...

Omaha, Nebraska's, new $281 million, 336,200-square-foot convention center and arena is scheduled to open in August 2003. The flexible main exhibition hall will offer 195,000 square feet of continuous flat floor area. The center's horseshoe-shaped...

In this time of heightened awareness of security and safety, what is the responsibility of meeting planners to address these issues? In a nutshell, a planner's legal obligation is to refrain from conduct that creates an unreasonably great risk of...

The latest meeting registration products represent a quantum leap from the days of the basic online registration form. These new products allow you to create a registration form in minutes and make it match your Web site. And customization options...