Everybody is still pretty much waiting for the big ball to drop — the much-delayed economic rebound is giving even Allen Greenspan agita. Meanwhile, the world news — from SARS to another Orange alert, as I write — weighs like a heavy blanket over...
After more than two years of construction, the newly expanded Oregon Convention Center in Portland opened April 18. The facility has doubled in size, making it the largest in the Pacific Northwest, with 255,000 square feet of exhibit hall space...
For the last week of April 2002 there were 25,120 fewer U.S. domestic flights operated, compared with the same time period in 2001, according to OAG, which maintains an independent database of airline schedules covering more than 950 airlines...
Few meeting professionals we contacted in the weeks before the U.S. invasion of Iraq had done anything to prepare for the war's impact on their business — from renegotiating their attrition clauses to increasing their security precautions. Now...
City, county, and even state governments are used to helping finance convention centers because the payback to local businesses, hotels, and the economy can be so great. But headquarters hotels have always been another story — until now...
Destinations that were easily accessible by air may now be two or more transfers away. Cities that had a daylong schedule of flights may now have only one or two a day. And in the current cost-cutting craze, some carriers may cancel or reschedule...