Suzette Eaddy listened closely late this summer to news reports about elevated terrorism threats. Eaddy, director of conferences for the National Minority Supplier Development Council Inc., New York, was particularly concerned because her group...
Houston had a problem. It had a state-of-the-art convention center — the George R. Brown Convention Center — but no headquarters hotel. Without a large, 1,000-plus-room hotel near the center, Houston languished as a convention destination. But 16...
Michael Garnier tried a lot of different businesses in his life, but it wasn't until he started building treehouses that things started clicking. On his 37-acre property in Cave Junction, Ore., he opened a bed-and-breakfast, but nobody came. Then...
As staffers filed into the conference room, some joked, others spoke in hushed tones, and a few buried their faces in their PDAs. This was to be a routine meeting, nothing special, nothing earth-shattering. The group started out with an ice...
JOHN G. REYES, vice president of sales at the San Diego CVB since 1997, has been hired as the president of the Jacksonville & the Beaches CVB. He fills the vacancy left by former CEO Kitty Ratcliffe, now executive vice president of the New...
The days of relentless growth in trade show attendance are behind us, declared Douglas L. Ducate, president and CEO of the Center for Exhibition Industry Research, at the annual meeting of the International Association for Exhibition Management...
Negotiating is both a science and an art. In meetings, things are going to change, and change quickly. It's important to understand the need to be flexible in negotiating. With that as the first fundamental, here is a list of important things to...
This scheduling timeline for a large international meeting and exhibit was adapted from a project management template, with 18 months lead time. There are typically more than 250 tasks on the template...
When it comes to scheduling day meetings, Cheryl Geid has just about seen it all. Geid, national travel and meeting planner for Grant Thornton LLP, a Chicago-based financial services firm, has booked space in hotels, conference centers, sports...