Fast casual This option offers a slightly higher quality of food, service, and atmosphere than a fast food restaurant; for example, Outback and Applebee's. Gourmet comfort food Comfort food gets done creatively: macaroni and cheese with...
The Green Meeting Industry Council, an association dedicated to sustainability for meetings and events, has a challenge for the industry: Divert, recycle, or compost a million tons of trash between Earth Day, April 22, and the end of 2009...
About 150,000 members of the hotel workers’ union UNITE HERE split off to form a new union, Workers United. The new union met last weekend for the first time in Philadelphia, and at that meeting voted to affiliate with the Service Employees...
A battle is brewing between Dallas city officials and a taxpayer watchdog group over construction of a $550 million Omni hotel adjacent to the Dallas Convention Center. Ultimately, voters will decide its fate...
Michael Dominguez, vice president, global sales, Loews Hotels, knows something about canceled meetings. In February 2008, hotel industry research firm PKF Consulting projected a 3 percent increase in revenue per available guest room (RevPAR) for...
Airline passenger revenue fell 19 percent in February 2009 compared to February 2008, according to the Air Transport Association of America. February is the fourth straight month that passenger revenues have decreased on a year-over-year basis...
Cape Cod’s Ocean Edge Resort & Club, in Brewster, Mass., will open its 5,000-square-foot Mansion Ballroom—which the resort touts as the largest luxury ballroom and meeting venue on the Cape—in April. It will accommodate 300 people, either classro...
It wasn’t an apology, but White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs did clarify remarks made last month by President Obama relating to corporate meetings and incentives. The remarks upset local leaders in Las Vegas, including Mayor Oscar Goodman...
