This is starting to feel like a horror movie, where just when you think the fee-and-surcharge monster is dead, it it comes back to life for one more swipe at hotel guests. And once again, hotel guests are beating it back with lawsuits that may not...

In response to this post on why so many meetings are so bad, and what would make me bolt from a meeting, Kare Anderson, a professional speaker and author, offered these ideas: ...

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As is the headline, but this study linking cheese shape preferences to politics from Sargento is just too weird not to pass on. So, the study says, if you like your cheese shredded, you probably like Bush; sliced and you’re a Kerry person. Do...

Heath Row over at the Fast Company blog got me a little hot under the collar with his comments on meetings. It starts out fine, with him talking about his magazine's staff retreat, and he provides a link to a good article on the topic. But then he...

OK, so I read the story this morning on how the Transportation Security Administration is going to make airlines to turn over domestic passenger records "so the agency could test a new system to match passenger names against lists of known or...

There's an interesting poll up on Hospitality Net today: ...

This post by Ed Sims on BeyondVC is a pretty good wrapup of what constitutes an effective, efficient board meeting. ...

For your next Ghostbusters convention, it sounds like one of these hotels would be perfect: "Heavy footsteps. Doors slamming. Cool drafts. This is just the beginning of the unexplained occurrences at Historic Hotels of America member hotels." ...

You may not know a wiki from a walrus, but chances you may have already used one. ...