The U.S. Senate last week passed homeland security legislation designed to ease travel for foreign travelers entering the country...

Hilton Hotels Corp. on March 15 relaunched its online booking tool for small meetings. In addition to a live inventory of room blocks, e-Events now allows planners to book meeting space, food and beverage, and audiovisual equipment at 2,300 North...

Ambassadors International Inc., Newport Beach, Calif., will acquire Windstar Cruises from Holland America Line, a unit of Carnival Corporation & plc. Windstar Cruises is a luxury cruise line featuring three small ships: the 312-passenger Wind...

Officials at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority are grappling with the timeline for the multi-million dollar renovation of the city’s convention center...

Save the date: There’s a new focus on tap for the Financial and Insurance Conference Planners Education Forum, June 20 to 22 at the St. Regis Resort, Monarch Beach, Dana Point, Calif...

The Meetings Community, an industry educational listserv commonly known as MeCo, has announced that it will soon have a home in Second Life, a booming online world where participants move around and chat as avatars...

Maritz Inc., Fenton, Mo., has a new study out that analyzes employees based on the way they like to be recognized. After talking to 1,003 adults employed full time, researches arrived at six categories—Freedom Yearners, Nesters, Award Seekers...

Disney Cruise Line plans to add two new ocean liners to its fleet. The ships, which are scheduled to launch in 2011 and 2012, will more than double the line’s passenger capacity and help Disney meet demand for its cruise business, which hosts a...

Following a scandal in which the former controller of the Palm Beach (Fla.) Convention and Visitors Bureau embezzled about $1.5 million from the organization’s coffers, the Palm Beach County Board of Commissioners will allow the CVB to continue to...

Meeting professionals can hone their Excel skills at an upcoming webinar, organized by the Financial and Insurance Conference Planners association and led by James Spellos, CMP, president, Meetings U...