The newly formed Association of Female Exhibit Managers and Convention Organizers (AFEMCO) will hold its first educational conference December 1 at Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center, one day prior to the annual meeting of the International...
Benny the Bull, the Chicago Bulls' red furry mascot, shook their hands, and player Randy Brown gave them autographs--just a few of the treats delegates experienced at the American Society of Association Executives' (ASAE) 77th annual meeting, July...
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London closed this summer to expand greatly its catering facilities, and to reconfigure and renovate meeting space. It is expected to be operating again by October, and will have the capacity for silver...
Few destinations have such skillfully blended natural and man-made attributes as has Arizona. There is the beauty of the desert, the relentlessness of the sunshine, the marvel of the Grand Canyon. But Arizona also has among the nation's most...
In early August, the new Four Seasons Resort Aviara opened on 180 acres in Carlsbad, CA, with 331 rooms and suites. Part of the 1,000-acre Aviara master-planned community, the 331-room luxury property is Four Seasons' first oceanview golf and...
Are you one of the many association planners who have turned to a private housing company to help solve persistent housing problems? If so, you probably won't be surprised to learn that a recent study conducted by the American Society of...
Many CVBs have Web sites with helpful information about their members, but Boston's meetingpath may be the only interactive service of its kind developed just for meeting planners. Launched earlier this year, meetingpath.comallows planners to...
The Canadian Pacific hotel company has launched its "Adopt-a-Shelter" program, in which each of the company's hotels has "adopted" a local women's shelter by donating goods and services. In addition to furniture, bedding, and other household items...
An entertainment option well-known in Hawaii and the Caribbean is now available in Vancouver. Atlantis Submarines will take your group for a look below the waves in its window-equipped subs. Some of the customized touches that Atlantis Submarines...
" Sometimes the great technological solution isn't the great technological solution," cautioned Michael P. O'Connell, director of meetings and convention services, Radiological Society of North America, Oak Brook, IL, speaking at the Meetings and...