Hotel Profits Soar in 2006
May 31, 2007
Hoteliers posted strong gains in 2006 as profits rose 13.3 percent, on average, for the year, according to PKF Consulting’s 2007 Trends in the Hotel Industry survey. But profits in 2006 were still about 21 percent lower than in 2000, according to...
Annual Meeting and Association Expo for D.C.
May 25, 2007
Springtime, a one-day trade show and conference for the association community, will be held June 14 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C., sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives and the Center for Association...
Chicago Bureau Delivers Small Meetings Tool
May 22, 2007
The Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau introduced an online tool that helps meeting planners book small meetings in the city...
StarCite Helps Planners Assess Environmental Footprint
May 21, 2007
StarCite is helping planners to automate and streamline going green. The Philadelphia-based provider of meeting-management solutions has partnered with Meeting Strategies Worldwide Inc., a Portland, Ore.–based conference management, consulting...
Border-Crossing Blues
May 17, 2007
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How Sarbanes-Oxley Has Changed Meetings
May 17, 2007
Five years after it became law, the Sarbanes-Oxley bill has sparked a number of shifts in the way meetings are managed and procured, said Joshua Grimes, Esq., Grimes Law Offices, Philadelphia, speaking at the Third Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting...
Attendees' Pet Peeves About Exhibits
May 16, 2007
The typical exhibit hall is overwhelming and an inefficient learning environment. That’s just one of the findings in a survey of healthcare convention attendees conducted by Impact Unlimited, a Dayton, N.J.-based event production and...
Confessions from Exhibitions Anonymous
May 14, 2007
Trade show organizers have a problem, said Mickey McManus, president and CEO of MAYA Design, to the more 180 people who gathered at the Washington, D.C., Convention Center last week for the Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum one-day...
Green Learning Lab at Meeting Professionals International PEC-Europe
May 14, 2007
Using its recent Professional Education Conference–Europe as it resource laboratory, Meeting Professionals International has released a white paper that, it says, reaffirms the impact effective “learning” meetings have on ROI for both the meeting...
Las Vegas Convention Center Renovations Approved
May 11, 2007
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s board of directors approved the budget, timeline, and plans for the renovation of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Most of the work will be completed in 2010, as initially planned, although some...
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