Here's one welcome sign of more flexibility when it comes to convention center contracts: The San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau recently adopted a new flexible rental rate structure for its convention center, making the San Joe McEnery...
As this strange, unsettling year draws to an end, news reports show some AARP members burning their membership cards to protest the association's support for a controversial Medicare reform bill, which was narrowly passed by Congress as we went to...
In the October cover story of Association Meetings, industry leaders suggested several possible solutions to the current housing crisis, in which a growing number of attendees are booking outside the contracted room block, thanks to cheaper hotel...
The International Association of Hispanic Meeting Professionals was just a gleam in the eye of Margaret Gonzalez back in 1996. That's when Gonzalez, along with about 17 other people who were attending a meeting in Miami Beach, came up with the...
You call me with The Problem: The Big Hotel is keeping your money, deducting money from your bank account, or not providing the services you think they are supposed to provide...
The crystal balls were rolling at the Hotel Sales & Marketing Association International-New York University Industry Strategy Conference in New York City in late September, with a panel of hotel experts offering a situation analysis as well as...
“Show organizers call us pirates and bandits. That's OK,” says Bruce Peterson, president of Las Vegas-based Events Plus Travel. His destination management company has come under fire recently for allegedly “poaching” attendees and exhibitors from...