Announcing its third Opryland development outside of Nashville, Gaylord Entertainment Co. unveiled plans for a self-contained, 2,000-room destination hotel and convention center in Prince George's County, Maryland. The Opryland Hotel Potomac...

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More and more hotels are building spas, perceiving them as a lure not just for leisure travelers, but for meeting attendees as well...

Adding Value With a Visiting Professor If your events draw more than one vendor, consider offering your site visitors multiple expert opinions...

IACVB REPOSITIONS ITSELF ON THE NET Taking a cue from the online adult entertainment industry, one of the few industries that has actually made money on the Web, the International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus announced an...

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If you're booking a property a year in advance, it may not be enough to have a paragraph in the contract about the venue's physical condition. In fact, an event or meetings manager might want to have all kinds of visual records, such as the...

AND THE BEAT GOES ON ... Need to figure out how to drum up a hot new software concept? Tired of beating your head against the wall when one department's techie teammates can't seem to play nicely with each other? Charles Kaplan, PhD, has just the...

Tools of Engagement Use these tools to "engage" the entire virtual audience - even across multiple locations and time zones...

special report REAGAN CENTER: READY FOR PRIME TIME From the podium to the world: The Reagan Center takes events straight to the networks...