Beyond Growth Handling more than 7,000 walk-ins at this year's event was a wake-up call for meeting managers of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference. They needed to automate - and fast...
No Way! Are convention and visitor bureaus dinosaurs? Are they at risk of disappearing into history as other species evolve and become dominant? After all, a number of new online companies are offering planners services that traditionally were the...
Meeting managers visiting the Pittsburgh booth at the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting in Orlando in August got a preview of the stunning new David L. Lawrence Convention Center, now under construction. The $328 million...
Video technology is finding its place among virtual meeting tools, from Web meetings to teleconferencing to webcasting. And for good reason: Video lets participants see facial expressions, which convey much more than disembodied words ever could...
Congratulations Oncenter Complex The Oncenter Complex, a three-building facility located in downtown Syracuse, has become one of the Northeast's most versatile, flexible, and service-oriented meeting and convention sites. The complex comprises the...
Two CVB Veterans Jump to Dot-Com Side "It's a dot-com Wild, Wild West out there," according to Jerry P. Schreibeis and Debra R. Smucker, two Greater Pittsburgh Convention and Visitors Bureau veterans who have left their bricks-and-mortar world to...
Congratulations Cobo Conference/Exhibition Center The centerpiece of downtown Detroit's Civic Center, Cobo Conference/Exhibition Center offers a total of 700,000 square feet of space, with 600,000 square feet of contiguous exhibit space, expansive...
One of the major reasons people attend association meetings is to network with others who may be working on similar problems or using similar products. So why not provide another avenue for them to get that networking value anytime from your Web...
What's New in this City with a Modern Face and a Traditional Heart? Montreal's world-renowned reputation in the international convention industry keeps growing: It was recently ranked third (behind Washington, D.C., and New York City) as a key...
Congratulations George R. Brown Convention Center Located in downtown Houston, the George R. Brown Convention Center is the city's major convention hall providing close to 500,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space. The center's excellent...