Are independent audits the key to keeping exhibitor interest in a tough marketplace for show organizers? That's the belief of the Computer Event Marketing Association (CEMA), which helped finance the audit of the National Association of...
Every year, the RCMA Board of Directors selects a theme for the next RCMA World Conference and Exposition. Likewise, most religious meeting planners choose themes for the various meetings that they work on. Banners, buttons, badges, programs, Web...
Taking a meeting to South America is part of the routine for Chris Pentz, CMP, President of Pentz Group Communications, in Philadelphia. She's taken pharmaceutical groups to Argentina, Chile, Columbia, and Brazil — including trips to Santiago...
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...