"Our association has been inundated with phone calls—the first calls were our members asking how they could help," says Rick Sampson, president, New York State Restaurant Association, Albany, N.Y. Members in New York City-area chapters started...
The American Society of Association Executives (www.asaenet.org) held an audioconference on September 21 to address the cancellation issues arising from the tragedy. Along with legal and insurance advice, the audioconference included a walk...
The Association for Interactive Media is holding its Denver Interactive Marketing Forum next Tuesday, as previously scheduled. The forum was planned when the September Net.Marketing conference was cancelled because of a low number or registrants...
The Convention Industry Council says that anxiety about traveling isn’t stopping people from getting back to business—including attending meetings, conventions, and exhibitions, which were a $96.4 billion industry last year...
Cleveland-based independent planning firm Conferon Inc. was actually running a 250-person meeting for the National Association of Business Economists (NABE) in the Marriott World Trade Center when the attack occurred on September 11...
Industry conferences and classes have been cancelled following last weeks terrorist attacks on the U.S. and nerves are frayed as direct marketers make travel plans for the Direct Marketing Association's annual conference next month...
Chicago’s McCormick Place and the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle are rebounding with hardly a bounce from the September 11 tragedy...
The status of hotels in World Trade Center area as of 9/20/01...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) last May published a new terrorism preparedness planning guidance for state and local governments. Much of the information also is useful for meeting planners seeking guidance on developing risk...