HelmsBriscoe Busts Out With a laser-like intensity, Roger Helms, president and CEO of HelmsBriscoe, outlined his vision and goals at the company's annual business conference in December: "To create and communicate so much benefit and value to...

If you think there's not enough meeting planning software out there to fill a book, think again. Corbin Ball, CMP, the technology columnist for this magazine and a frequent industry speaker on the subject, has catalogued the options from A to Z in...

Kudos to all 55 winners for receiving honors in the eighth annual Inner Circle Awards program. This tribute is paid by AM readers, who voted these top hotels, resorts, convention centers, and convention and visitors bureaus as the best to have...

Recreating the mood of turn-of-the-century New England, the resorts' warm and inviting setting is perfect for retreats, board meetings, and conferences, with the fine restaurants, shopping, and entertainment of Disney's BoardWalk and Epcot(r) just...

Have you noticed lately that time has speeded up? Just last November, during an interview with Ann Gordon, CEO of the then six-month-old eSociety.com, Gordon described the advent of business-to-business Web portals as occurring "back in the late...

Dramatic Growth for AllMeetings.com Is there room in the market for another Internet meeting planning site? AllMeetings.com thinks so. Brian Ashton, vice president of the company, based in Henderson, Nev., says AllMeetings.com is the only online...

Nashville Comes to Washington, D.C. Announcing its third Opryland development outside of Nashville, Gaylord Entertainment Company unveiled plans for a self-contained 2,000-room destination hotel and convention center in Prince Georges County...

By now most of you have probably heard all about Hyatt Hotels Corp. vs. Women's International Bowling Congress. That's the case in which Hyatt tried unsuccessfully to bring a lawsuit against WIBC for breach of contract when the group failed to use...

Passkey.com Launches Event Registration Passkey.com, Inc. (www.passkey.com), a Quincy, Mass.based convention and group reservation management technology firm, now offers event registration as an integrated component of its group housing services...

Brush up on your legalese and your economics: The turn of the century will bring no turnabout in the complexity of legal issues related to meetings--especially those issues that affect the bottom line...