This year’s China Incentive, Business Travel & Meetings Exhibition (CIBTM), held in Beijing, set an attendance record, and was the setting for the launch of Meetings Week China, a week of educational activities for the Chinese meeting and...
Exhibition and conference organizers headed to Amsterdam are now able to link up with Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre for help making their events at the convention center carbon-neutral...
A U.S. Senate vote has moved the Travel Promotion Act one step closer to becoming law. The act, designed to attract more international visitors to the U.S., provides for the creation of a nonprofit, public-private partnership charged with...
The Business Travel Coalition, a group that represents about 300 corporate travel departments, has joined forces with nonprofit advocacy group FlyersRights.org to support passenger-rights legislation allowing airline passengers on domestic flights...
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...
