Thomas Arasi has been appointed president of Crowne Plaza Hotels and Resorts. Arasi, who will be based in the company's Atlanta headquarters, previously served as president of the Tishman Hotel Corporation in New York...
Opening of the Rocky Gap Lodge & Golf Resort in western Maryland is less than a year away. The property, set on 260 acres within Rocky Gap State Park near Cumberland, will have 220 guest rooms and 14,000 square feet of meeting space in...
Construction is under way on 250 new oceanfront hotel rooms and 23,000 square feet of additional conference space at Amelia Island Plantation in northeast Florida. The resort will have a total of 360 ocean-front hotel rooms when the addition opens...
Like a lot of technology-based tools, meeting management software is sometimes hyped as a solution to meeting management problems. It can make meeting planning much more efficient, but it can also make life miserable if it isn't efficient in the...
MEETING executives hire speakers to educate or to entertain; the best speakers do both. It has become common practice for organizations that retain speakers, be they professional or volunteer, to enter into agreements with them outlining the terms...
Conferon Offers Reservations on the Web Now, Conferon clients can offer their attendees an extra perk--the option to register for meetings via the Web. Since December, Conferon, an association and meeting management firm based in Twinsburg, OH...
Air Canada has launched nonstop service between Raleigh-Durham and Toronto. The carrier became the first foreign-flag carrier to fly into the city on a scheduled basis. The airline is offering two daily nonstop flights using the 50-passenger...
Skiing may come most easily to mind when you think of recreation options in Quebec. But the province is out to prove that the golfing opportunities are just as good as the skiing...
Boston's Hill, Holliday Exhibition Services, Inc. has named Jon Leibowitz senior vice president. Leibowitz, who will handle tradeshow and association clients, most recently served as vice president of Event Management International for the World...
Resort Meetings Consortium Gets Planners Price Breaks I was kind of disturbed when I got back rate quotes," says Jack Mackin, executive vice president, Associated Building Materials Distributors of America, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ, recalling his...