According to Tamara Crews, director of meeting services for the Bank Securities Association in San Rafael, Calif., "Golf is now a requirement in selecting a meeting site. That's why we come to Arizona so often." In April 1997, the association held...

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Former Clinton advisor George Stephanopoulos along with John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends and Global Paradox, top the celebrity speaker line-up for the CLC Forum '98...

Enter the Scottish Convention Bureau's contest and you have the chance to win a free board meeting in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, or Glasgow...

The much needed overhaul of the International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus' database of 20,000-plus meetings and conventions was completed earlier this year, and the new CINET98 offers improvements not only for CVBs that subscribe...

As the millennium approaches, cities across the country are building new convention centers and expanding existing ones. But to thrive in an increasingly competitive market, centers must offer much more than exhibit space...

One of the newest players attempting to solve the meeting industry's long-standing problems with convention housing, Passkey Systems Inc., in Quincy, Mass., has been endorsed by the International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus. At...

Jim Martin, executive director, Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants Inc., in Atlanta, has won Association Meetings' 1998 Inner Circle Award drawing. All readers who vote in our best hotels/resorts and conference centers contest are...

The meeting industry can look forward to another boom year, according to the results of the 1999 Meetings Outlook Survey, conducted by the American Society of Association Executives, Washington, D.C., and Meeting Professionals International in...

The winner of Association Meetings' first Top Guides Contest will be announced in the December issue, along with the editors' analyses of the guide's stand-out features. The contest honors the most attendee-friendly program booklets. The editors...