Based on various industry surveys, women in the exposition management field make 25 to 42 percent less than their male counterparts, says Maria Brennan, president of the one-and-a-half-year-old Bethesda, Md.-based Association of Female Exhibit...
Association Meetings interviewed Elaine Curl, president of The Convention Store, to uncover ways to cut ground transportation costs. Curl, whose company designs and runs shuttle systems throughout the United States for conventions and special...
The Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association has promoted Jamie Rice to senior sales manager. She had been national sales manager with BACVA. Casandra Brown has also been named senior sales manager. Brown joins from the Wyndham Anatole...
As the pressure builds on convention and exposition departments to increase revenues, one approach worth noting is that of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Warrendale, Penn...
"Eternal vigilance may well be the price of liberty, as the old saying goes, but it also is the price meeting planners pay if they want to come in on--or even under--budget." So says Rodney Abraham, president of the Professional Meeting Planning...
The first study to measure the overall economic impact of college and university conferences and events shows that the industry contributes $1.5 billion annually to the national economy...
Salty Alaskas For the awards banquet at the tenth anniversary annual meeting, R. Russ Ruston, meeting and convention coordinator, American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, Arlington Heights, Ill., wanted to do something special. He...
The largest-ever European Incentive & Business Travel & Meetings Exhibition took place in Geneva, Switzerland May 12 to 14, with 2,400 exhibitors and 7,500 attendees from 108 countries...
"On the plane, I ordered a vodka tonic. The guy next to me said, 'Gosh, that's a man's drink,'" recalls Mickey Schaefer, CAE, vice president, membership, meetings and conventions, and administration, for the American Academy of Family Physicians...