Bob Coffey has joined the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center, an SMG-managed facility in Jacksonville, FL, as director. He had been general manager of the Marina Hotel (now Radisson Riverwalk Hotel), also in Jacksonville...
Some 75 people attended the first Beyond Borders Conference, an educational forum for planners and suppliers of international meetings, incentives, and events, held at the New York Hilton in March...
The Wisconsin Center, a $170 million, 800,000-square-foot convention center under construction in Milwaukee, has a new name as the result of a partnership between Midwest Express Airlines and the Wisconsin Center District. The facility, now known...
As meeting professionals, we make our livelihood on the dissemination of information. Our attendees need timely and detailed programs and services, and it's our job to make sure they get them...
Despite the fact that the Meetings & Exhibitions Technology Conference (METCON), held in Rosemont, IL, in April, was a technology conference, only 21 registrants, or about 4.4 percent, registered via the Internet. That's going to change...
The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) expects more than 5,500 attendees to converge at the newly expanded McCormick Place Convention Center, July 26 to 30, for ASAE Chicago 1997. About 100 educational sessions, organized in 20...
"I want members everywhere to be able to benefit from Meeting Professionals International's (MPI) programs and take part in its governance," says MPI's president-elect Anna Lee Chabot, CMP, who officially begins her term on July 1. Currently the...
Hilton Hotels Corporation's new disclosure policy created a furor among meeting planners when it was announced at January's Professional Convention Management Association meeting. The policy was designed to inform attendees when a hotel paid any...
Industry Conference Fuels Debateon Future of Meetings Technology It was the software package that was supposed to create, at long last, a standardized platform for the electronic exchange of meeting data between hotels and planners. Then, just...
* The province of Manitoba capitalizes on its natural splendor in a new 20-page brochure called Manitoba: Your Natural Incentive. The publication describes possible itineraries combining the best of the capital city of Winnipeg with trophy fishing...