Little Rock (Ark.) National Airport has picked Verified Identity Pass to run a Register Traveler program. Verified now has airport security fast lanes at Orlando, Fla.; San José, Calif.; Indianapolis; Cincinnati; and Albany, N.Y., airports, as...
These days, with food and beverage minimums rising faster than the price of gas, sellers's-market-rate guest rooms, and sky-high Wi-Fi costs, meeting planners can relate to Yogi Berra's famous saying, “A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.” While...
In my lifetime, which spans more than half a century, I have discovered what I consider to be an awesome treasure: a sizeable number of friends and acquaintances in whom I can place my trust. Not the least of these are the men and women who...
Association Meeting Planners are Getting a New Job Description: alchemist. But instead of being asked to transmute lead into gold, they're being asked to provide a champagne and caviar-level meeting on a beer and hotdog budget. This is despite the...
The average U.S. meeting attendee, over the course of a three-day event, uses more than 2,000 BTUs of electricity, consumes more than 800 gallons of water, and generates more than 80 pounds of waste...
Make plans to join your colleagues and friends at RCMA's 36th World Conference and Exposition, to be held February 5-8, 2008, in Orlando, Fla., at the Rosen Shingle Creek resort...
February 5, 1840, was a significant day in meetings history. It was on that day in Boston that the second-oldest continuously operating association in the U.S., the American Statistical Association, held its very first annual meeting. About 10...