Joan Mahon has been planning meetings at The New England for 25 years, but when she talks about "the old days" of meeting management, she could be remembering just three years back--or any time before late 1995 when her department started using a...
Hosted with charm and enthusiasm by the Opryland Hotel Convention Center staff and the city of Nashville, attendees at the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) World Education Conference in July didn't just learn how to manage meetings better...
McGettigan Partners didn't intend to be in the software business--and it wasn't competition from a software company that pushed the meeting management firm in that direction. In fact, explains Mark Jordan, director of marketing for McGettigan, the...
The Hamilton (Bermuda) Princess Hotel will complete a $4 million renovation in May that reduces the pool wing from 102 rooms to 64 rooms, 33 of which are oversized with living rooms, separate shower and tub, and balcony or terrace...
The Hyatt Regency Wichita broke ground in March, with plans to open its doors in fall 1997. The 300-room, 18-floor property will be adjacent to the Century II Convention Center on the east bank of the Arkansas River. Facilities will include 12,000...
WHETHER you're about to join the rush of traffic on the information superhighway or have already hit the electronic road, there are legal potholes to watch for as you travel online...
Life magazine has called the Waldorf Astoria's annual New Year's Eve party "One of the Ten Best Parties of the Year." The big question: What will they do for the party of parties on December 31, 1999? According to James Blauvelt, director of...
San Francisco's Parc Fifty Five Hotel has a new name. The Crowne Plaza Parc Fifty Five is now the largest in Holiday Inn Worldwide's Crowne Plaza line, with 1,009 rooms and 21,000 square feet of conference space... The St. Anthony Hotel in San...
In the film classic, Desk Set, starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey, the Christmas office party is the catalyst for two shy, admiring characters to let down their inhibitions. Beneath a backdrop of fraternizing and excessive drinking...
A low-cost commuter airline has set its sights on the mid-Atlantic market, with hopes of a take-off by early spring. The airline, to be called Shuttle America, plans to serve secondary airports such as New Haven, CT; Wilmington, DE; and Baltimore...