Hoteliers and convention and visitor bureau chiefs are among the first 11 travel and tourism industry leaders recently named to the new Corporation for Travel Promotion board of directors...
The sight of the Opryland Hotel underwater in May marked the beginning of an extreme weather season, highlighting for me the vulnerability of the meetings economy to effects of climate change...
Penton Media Inc. has signed multi-year, exclusive deals with two vendors—onPeak of Chicago to provide housing, and CompuSystems Inc. to provide registration—for all of its trade shows. Penton Media owns the MeetingsNet brand of magazines and Web...
The municipal body that runs the Boise Centre convention center and funds the Boise Convention and Visitors Bureau has decided to bring its destination marketing dollars in-house, leaving the future of the CVB uncertain...
One of the most-watched awards in the meetings industry is the meeting technology company recognized in the annual Worldwide Technology Watch by EIBTM—The Global Meetings & Incentives Exhibition, scheduled for November 30–December 2 in...
Four out of five exhibitors (81 percent) have scaled back their trade show participation over the past year due to the economy, and many are regretting their decision, according to a new report from Champion Exposition Services...
For the ninth consecutive quarter, the CEIR Index, which tracks metrics in the exhibition industry, has posted year-over-year declines, dropping 1.4 percent in the second quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2009...
Melissa Etheridge, Cyndi Lauper, Joy Behar … not exactly standard fare for the annual meetings of ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership, the association for associations. But with a totally transformed downtown Los Angeles as its...