Randal Savage, corporate director, rooms, at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, White Plains, N.Y., has seen and heard it all. Empty hotel rooms with the lights on, the television blaring, and on some occasions, the shower running...
It's called an addition, but the just-opened McCormick Place West in Chicago is more like a stand-alone, self-contained, 740,000-square-foot convention center, connected by an enclosed walkway to the 2.2-million-square-foot McCormick Place in...
The American Society of Association Executives and Center for Association Leadership's annual meeting in Chicago was a record breaker, drawing 7,058 attendees, topping the former high of 6,221 set in 1999 in San Diego by about 15 percent...
After years of uncertainty and delay, the Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority Board of Commissioners has abandoned efforts to expand the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, and instead plans to redirect some of the funds...
If it’s not Vegas, it must be … Macau? This tiny Chinese peninsula 37 miles southwest of Hong Kong, which includes the city of the same name, surpassed the gaming revenue of the Las Vegas Strip in 2006 and saw the opening August 28 of The Venetian...
Meeting planners, convention and visitors bureau executives, and hoteliers gathered last week at the Passkey Housing Forum in Boston to hash out how to get a handle on some of today’s tough conference housing challenges. Passkey provides online...
The Independent Meeting Planners Association of Canada has rebranded itself as the Canadian Society of Professional Event Planners. The 12-year-old, 130-member organization also announced a new Web site, www.cspep.ca.
This morning, Hurricane Dean slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula with sustained winds of 165 mph and gusts of 200 mph. The eye of the storm is just north of the Mexico-Belize border, passing south of the resort areas of Cancun, Cozumel, and...
At its annual meeting this week in Chicago, ASAE and the Center for Association Leadership announced the formation of a new meeting, the Global Summit on Social Responsibility...