Deanna Nord, account executive, Live Marketing, Chicago, and Tom Frisby, creative director, 1220 Exhibits, Orlando, Fla., were team members in exhibit designs that won Grand Awards in The Trade Show Exhibitors Association's 2002 Exhibit Focus...
The Insurance Conference Planner’s Association Annual Meeting in Seattle, November 3 to 7, drew a record crowd of 195 planners and 336 hospitality partners. Best pre-meeting detail: easy online registration and up-to-the-minute conference...
Many association planners are quick to pin the blame for industry layoffs on third-party planning companies who tempt their organizations to shed salaried employees in favor of less expensive external planners. But Bruce Harris, who heads up the...
Meeting planners spend a lot of time putting out fires and reacting to change. Of course, some fires are bigger than others. A three-alarm headache hit the industry this summer when Event411 went out of business, leaving drop-jawed clients...
Barcelona has been chosen as the venue for the 17th European Incentive, Business Travel & Meetings Exhibition, to take place November 30 to December 2, 2004, and for the following four years. EIBTM has been held at the Palexpo in Geneva in May...
A new company that focuses solely on air fulfillment for groups claims that it can offer companies significant savings. Air Fulfillment Services, Des Moines, Iowa, which was started in August 2001, focuses on such tasks as group air planning...
A rundown of recent happenings in the industry...
IDG World Expo, based in Framingham, Mass., is bringing Macworld Conference & Expo back to Boston. Macworld, which was held in Boston for 13 years before it was moved to New York in 1998, is planning to return in summer 2004, after completion...
ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO answer the question, “How's business?” as it applies to the meeting and incentive industry is to stroll the aisles at the annual IT&ME Show in Chicago. As we did just that this September, it was clear that business was...