The following was adapted from a tutorial held at RCMA 2009. The tutorial was led by Lerry Fogle, conference executive director, Church of the Brethren, New Windsor, Md.; Mike Gunn, vice president of sales, Greater Birmingham CVB, Birmingham, Ala...
The International Association of Assembly Managers Foundation has received a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to increase emergency preparedness in venues, including meeting and convention facilities, according to a...
A citizen’s task force appointed by Mayor Jerry Sanders gave the thumbs up to a $753 million expansion of the San Diego Convention Center. While it still requires an additional land purchase, city council approval, and financing, the expansion...
A new labor policy at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center has created confusion and concern among exhibition contractors and organizers, but officials at the group that oversees the convention business in the California city, Team San Jose...
Union contracts expired at 62 hotels in San Francisco on August 14, at 37 hotels in Chicago on August 31 at midnight, and are scheduled for renewal at a number of Los Angeles hotels in November. When contracts expired in 2004 in San Francisco...