Aiming to capture a bigger piece of the U.S. meeting market, Montreal's Palais des Congres is launching an ambitious expansion project, which will double the center's exhibition space to 200,000 square feet, double meeting room space to 60,000...
The International Association for Exposition Management has formed an Internet Task Force to discuss ideas for how trade show organizers can best use the Internet to help them with their live trade shows...
The folks who visited MacWorld this summer with palm computers in their pockets were in luck. Thanks to software developer and entrepreneur Trina Clickner, they could download show info onto their handhelds and leave the show guide back in the...
You're thinking of buying an LCD projector. Perhaps you've had bad experiences renting or getting support from hotel audiovisual departments, or maybe the cost, which has fallen from the mid-teens to $4,000 to $8,000 for a decent machine, has...
Meeting Professionals International and the American Society of Association Executives collaborated on a survey of 300 meeting planners, half from corporations, half from associations. Here are some of the recently released results...
* The Westin Portland was scheduled to open August 17 in downtown Portland. The 205-room property has 2,060 square feet of meeting space, a health and fitness suite, and high-speed Internet access in all guest rooms...
Several weeks ago I teamed up with Doug Fox of Event-Web to deliver a joint session at the midyear educational conference of the International Association for Exposition Management in Chicago. The feedback from attendees at that session was so...
While Australia may lack the mega-convention centers found in the U.S., its meetings infrastructure rivals any country in terms of sophistication of equipment and services. Here's a roundup of its major cities and centers...
Latin America may not have a high profile as a meeting and incentive destination, but it delivers. That's the theme of the first Meetings and Incentive Travel Market (MITM) Latin America, to take place in Guadalajara, Mexico January 14 to 17, 2000...
We produce many meetings every year that include in-house presentations and demos that are beyond our control. I've seen good ones, and I've also seen the incomprehensible, unimaginable, and uninspired...