* Chicago's historic Silversmith Building is being transformed into the Crowne Plaza Chicago Silversmith. When the hotel opens in December, the ten-story, 1897 structure will have 143 guest rooms and meeting space for groups of up to 150 persons...

If you read this before June 22 (well, at least a week before), there might still be room for you to attend the Society of Incentive & Travel Executives' first University of The Americas in Charleston, SC at the beautiful Charleston Place...

Getting Started 1. Skip the phone tag and long-distance charges, and surf the Web. The major online service providers have travel forums with information about individual countries. Or, visit www.goeurope.com >, a European travel Web site. You...

Nowhere is a convention and visitors bureau's services more critical to corporate executives planning meetings than in the international arena. IACVB is learning this firsthand while planning its annual meeting, to be held July 17 to 22 in Hong...

Look at the bulletin board. There's nothing here. No announcements, no statements. It's your worst nightmare. Classic management technique." ...

"Embracing Change," the theme of IACVB's annual convention set to open July 19, is particularly appropriate, say organizers, as the conference will the ...

Working with a structure that always has had "the bones of a beauty," planners and restorers have returned the classic downtown Orpheum Theatre to its status as an elegant, gracious showplace...

You know why you've been thinking about taking your next meeting or incentive to Switzerland. It's beautiful, it's safe, and you know exactly what you will get: excellent and reliable service...

The 1997 New England Meetings Industry Conference & Exposition (NEMICE) drew more than 1,200 attendees to the World Trade Center Boston in April--the biggest NEMICE ever...

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...