Just a few weeks ago, our company held an editorial retreat at a conference center in the metro Boston area. Our mission was to come up with a visioning statement and to chart a course of action over the next year for our group of six meetings...
CONSIDER the figures: In 1980 only 60 hotels and resorts offered spa programs in the United States. During the 1980s, that figure doubled. By 1999, more than 400 hotels offered some form of on-site spa facility, according to Spa Finders, a company...
"He doesn't know what he's talking about," declares Michael S. Olson, CAE, president and CEO for the last two years of Washington, D.C.-based American Society of Association Executives. The "he" is Industry Standard reporter Greg Dalton, who in...
Among sometimes tearful farewells, industry greats toasted Roy B. Evans Jr., CAE, and his many accomplishments from his 17-year run as executive vice president and CEO of the Professional Convention Management Association on May 31 in Washington...
IAEM'S MID-YEAR: A 'NEW WAY' IN A BIG WAY "Out with the old and in with the new" could have been the theme for The International Association of Exhibition Management's (IAEM) Mid-Year Meeting in Baltimore, June 6 to 8. A new name, a new...
If you're like most people with an event-related Web site, you are always thinking about how to create new revenue from your site. Your virtual trade show or product forum (or whatever you call your online listing of companies) would seem like an...
In meeting and guest rooms, the major hotel chains now provide technology that companies once considered frills. Read on for the latest news and upgrades...
Workshops with a Beat Send Good Vibes In 1995 When Charles Kaplan was a doctoral student of psychology at the University of Connecticut, little did he know that when he joined some locals on a Hawaiian island beach one night for a hand-drumming...
Recently, several organizations, including the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Organization of American Historians, and the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, canceled scheduled meetings at various Adam's Mark hotels after learning of the hotel chain's...