Answering the Call, CIC Reinvents Itself "Part of the problem with the Convention Industry Council is that it never had much of an image or communicated particularly well with its various audiences--or the industry as a whole, " says Garis F...
A few months ago at the IAEM Annual Meeting in Miami Beach, I led an educational session about developing e-business strategies in the trade show industry. I've tried to summarize a few of the key notions from that session here...
Key Findings * Top uses of the Internet: meeting destination and facility research, meeting registration, sale of association services and products, and e-mail marketing...
Once again London is remaking itself. The self-deemed Millennium City is undergoing a huge development boom, fueled in part by millennium celebration projects such as the Millennium Dome and the Millennium Wheel, but certainly much broader than...
Part One: U.K. New Developments A recent press trip sponsored by the British Tourist Authority brought to life some of the exciting new U.K. developments of interest to meeting and incentive travel organizers. This is part one of a two-piece...
Third largest of the islands, Oahu is home to Honolulu and 75 percent of the state's population. The island's geographic center has dramatic highlands of sheer green cliffs sculpted by wind and erosion. A lei of more than 50 beaches encircles the...
The Big Island is nearly twice as large as the others combined, and it is still growing. Since 1983, the Kilauea volcano has spewed lava and has added more than 70 acres to the island's southeast shore. In fact, offshore, an underwater Mount Loihi...
The convention/resort hotel's outstanding reputation is enhanced by its recently completed $18.5 million renovation of all guest rooms, meeting facilities, and public space...
Called the Magic Isle, Maui is ideal for meetings because the island's gods have arranged that residents and visitors alike shall have time for both work and play...
Have you heard the one about the 30 lawyers who spent an afternoon landscaping, planting flowers, and putting in a sprinkler system for a battered women's shelter? Don't wait for the punch line--it's no joke. In fact, the Young Lawyers Division of...