As a guest at the spacious 665-room Hershey Lodge and Convention Center in central Pennsylvania this spring, I experienced a couple of the “signature” body treatments at the 235-room Hotel Hershey's elegant European-style spa. The two hotels are...
It hasn't been a great year for meeting attendance at many associations, but not so for the American Society of Association Executive's Annual Meeting, which took place August 17 to 20 in Denver. The convention drew 5,810 registrants (including...
You'd think it would tough to get people to a 7 a.m meeting on a Sunday in August to talk about room rates. But our high-level group of roundtable participants, who met during the American Society of Association Executives' annual meeting this...
Phoenix Civic Plaza offers state-of-the-art facilities and an exciting location within Copper Square, the cultural heart of downtown Phoenix. The convention center features 375,000 square feet of flexible and economical meeting space, all located...
During the past seven years, new ideas, tools, and radically different business processes have bubbled up from hundreds of meeting-focused dot-coms, selling everything from management tools to meeting space auctions to virtual trade shows...
The International Association for Exhibition Management recently issued a 10-page Exhibition Industry Manifesto that focuses on improving industry education and communication, and creating best practices and national guidelines for the industry...
Whoever thinks that big convention hotels can't be stylish should take a look at the Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa, which opened January 31 in Hollywood, Fla. The new 1,000-room hotel and adjoining 209,000-square-foot convention center has an...
Hong Kong attracts about 300 international conferences and exhibitions annually. There are more than 1,100 associations in Hong Kong that are eager to collaborate with their overseas counterparts, making a ready network for successful...
Grace Oliver, event manager, Destination Nashville, left, and Elissa Myers, president and CEO, Electronic Retailing Association, Arlington, Va., get acquainted at the opening night reception at the National Museum of Women in the Arts during the...