IACVB Helps Its Members Face the Future Members turned out in large numbers at the annual meeting of the International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus, held in late July in Minneapolis, to learn about two initiatives that will shape...

To many in the meeting and convention world, he's known as Mr. Opryland. And his industry involvement is far and deep - among the many hats he wears: member of the American Society of Association Executives board of directors; International...

Association News Pamela A. Troop has joined The American Society of Association Executives as director of meetings operations. Troop most recently served as director of client services for Expovision, a housing management company serving the...

Cvent.com Has Roots in High-Tech Events During the day, Washington, D.C.-based corporate lawyer Reggie Aggarwal negotiated billion-dollar deals for Internet start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. On nights and weekends, he was creating a local...

Just a few weeks ago, our company held an editorial retreat at a conference center in the metro Boston area. Our mission was to come up with a visioning statement and to chart a course of action over the next year for our group of six meetings...

CONSIDER the figures: In 1980 only 60 hotels and resorts offered spa programs in the United States. During the 1980s, that figure doubled. By 1999, more than 400 hotels offered some form of on-site spa facility, according to Spa Finders, a company...

"He doesn't know what he's talking about," declares Michael S. Olson, CAE, president and CEO for the last two years of Washington, D.C.-based American Society of Association Executives. The "he" is Industry Standard reporter Greg Dalton, who in...

Among sometimes tearful farewells, industry greats toasted Roy B. Evans Jr., CAE, and his many accomplishments from his 17-year run as executive vice president and CEO of the Professional Convention Management Association on May 31 in Washington...

IAEM'S MID-YEAR: A 'NEW WAY' IN A BIG WAY "Out with the old and in with the new" could have been the theme for The International Association of Exhibition Management's (IAEM) Mid-Year Meeting in Baltimore, June 6 to 8. A new name, a new...

If you're like most people with an event-related Web site, you are always thinking about how to create new revenue from your site. Your virtual trade show or product forum (or whatever you call your online listing of companies) would seem like an...