Thanks to a computer glitch, rooms at the Disney World Holiday Inn were advertised at 93 cents instead of $93, according to this article. And, in a move that is pure Disney, the hotel not only honored the mistaken rate, it "decided to extend its...
Our sister magazine Special Events has just put up a great new resources online: The Special Events Sourcebook. It has listings for pretty much every special event service I could think of, from event producers to floral designers to insurance...
According to this article in the LA Times, the Beverly Hilton has signed a one-year pact with the the Unite Here union--which the union should like, since its goal has been to get all the contracts to expire simultaneously in 2006. That would give...
I find this one hard to believe, but Stephanie Downs at ConferZone reports that the day her presentation was scheduled at the WebEx User Conference in San Francisco, organizers had to cancel because "a protestor with guns was outside the event and...
Save the date: The Green Meeting Industry Council is putting on a "Greening the Hospitality Industry Conference" on October 5-7, 2005, in Metro Washington D.C. This is important stuff: You can save money and--dare I say it?--the world (or at least...
Just yesterday I posted about how hotel offers like the one outlined in this article can get an ethical planner's dander up. Then today I get a press release from a hotel chain that's offering $10,000 or the use of a Jaguar for a year to planners...
Sorry to be so quiet yesterday--I was en route to the official happiest place on the planet, and couldn't stop smiling long enough to turn on the laptop! I'm in Orlando for Disney's big anniversay press event, and there's something like 5,000...
Unless you're as sick of reading about the Brookings report on cities and convention centers as I am, you might find this examination worth a read. At least it has lots of pretty charts and graphs. ...
This article from the Salt Lake Tribune is a good example of why we all need to keep out ethical senses sharp. Here's a snip: ...