An investor group that includes Svoboda, Collins LLC, Mesirow Financial Inc., and Henry S. Givray has acquired the full ownership of Smith, Bucklin & Associates, the country's largest association management firm, with offices in Chicago, St...
Saratoga Springs is an award-winning resort destination located in New York state, three hours north of New York City. Featured recently in the New York Times, Travel and Leisure magazine, and the New Yorker, Saratoga is one of America's top...
As a guest at the spacious 665-room Hershey Lodge and Convention Center in central Pennsylvania this spring, I experienced a couple of the “signature” body treatments at the 235-room Hotel Hershey's elegant European-style spa. The two hotels are...
It hasn't been a great year for meeting attendance at many associations, but not so for the American Society of Association Executive's Annual Meeting, which took place August 17 to 20 in Denver. The convention drew 5,810 registrants (including...
You'd think it would tough to get people to a 7 a.m meeting on a Sunday in August to talk about room rates. But our high-level group of roundtable participants, who met during the American Society of Association Executives' annual meeting this...
Phoenix Civic Plaza offers state-of-the-art facilities and an exciting location within Copper Square, the cultural heart of downtown Phoenix. The convention center features 375,000 square feet of flexible and economical meeting space, all located...
During the past seven years, new ideas, tools, and radically different business processes have bubbled up from hundreds of meeting-focused dot-coms, selling everything from management tools to meeting space auctions to virtual trade shows...