The value of meetings and events to organizations around the world has only one way to go: up. That's the word from Meeting Professional International's World Education Congress 2000 in Los Angeles, held from July 9 to 11. From the special-effects...

Its goal relative to the association and trade show world is simple. "We want to own it," says Peggy Lee, CEO and founder of Westport, Conn.-based b-there.com (www.b-there.com), an Internet-based housing, registration, and travel provider...

Referred to affectionately by locals simply as The Book, the best-selling Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt put Savannah on the tourist map. Now Savannah is working its charm on meeting attendees as well. Microsoft and Oracle...

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Darcy Bowman Rose, CMP, executive director of Rendezvous and a founding member of TM's editorial advisory board, received the Meeting Planner of the Year 2000 award from the San Diego chapter of Meeting Professionals...

So you think your travel incentive program is unwieldy? How about being in charge of a program for 32,000 employees around the world? Just thinking about postage could make your head--and your accounting department--reel. When Dayton, Ohio-based...

CONSIDER the figures: In 1980, only 60 hotels and resorts offered spa programs in the United States. During the 1980s, that figure doubled. By 1999, more than 400 hotels offered some form of on-site spa facility, according to Spa Finders, which...

Tough issues and high spirits marked the CEMA Summit 2000 at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. This year's Computer Event Marketing Association annual meeting drew 277 attendees, a 20 percent increase over the previous year. Since last...

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 thing to help make it all...

THE REAL "HIGH TOUCH" If I had an in-the-money stock option for every time I have seen or heard the phrase "high tech, high touch," I'd be a billionaire. Heh, heh. I guess I've written and said it once or twice myself. I think of it as a shorthand...

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