On April 3, members of Washington, D.C.'s First Year Club were treated to a sneak preview of “Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years,” at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Sponsored by the Washington Convention Center Authority and the Washington, D...
San Diego has long since shed its reputation as that sleepy Navy town just north of Tijuana, but meeting and incentive organizers who haven't visited recently might be surprised at just how far it has come. The city now has so many top-quality...
There are many reasons to transfer management responsibilities to an association management company. Perhaps your current independent staff plans to retire, or a long-thought-out strategic plan requires a new management approach. Whatever the...
Willie Jolley presented the keynote speech at the Religious Conference Management Association's 30th Anniversary Conference and Exposition, held in January in Tampa, Fla...
If your attendee-control system starts and ends with the bored security personnel at the exhibit hall entrance, beware: Meeting security expectations are higher post — 9/11. Some simple and inexpensive tools to help control access to your events...
A surprising result came out of the recent 13th Edition of the Association Executive Compensation and Benefits Study, conducted by American Society of Association Executives, Washington, D.C.: Trade show/exposition managers are among the few...
Remember those energy surcharges that swept the hospitality community last summer? As promised, they quietly disappeared last fall as energy prices dropped back to more normal levels. Now that summer's coming around again, will the energy...
IACVB Launches New Study: The International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus, Washington, D.C., has launched a new Convention and Expenditure Impact Study it hopes will standardize industry economic impact calculations and provide...
Kalahari Resort & Convention Center, Wisconsin Dells, Wis., will open an additional 138,000 square feet of accommodations this month. The $12 million expansion adds 106 luxury suites to the existing 272 guest accommodations. Each African...