I just heard about a new company called hotelnegotiating.com, which offers one-on-one contract negotiation coaching to event and meeting planners. They don’t negotiate the contract for you or offer legal advice, but they do teach you how to become...

According to this article from The Dallas Morning News, Wyndham International, the hotel chain that landed at the bottom of the NAACP’s annual lodging report four years ago, came in second (behind Marriott International) in the latest NAACP...

Today's Buzzword of the day is priceless: ...

From a really interesting article on hotel-online.com: ...

According to a panel at the recent American Hotel & Lodging Association U.S. Lodging Industry Summit, here are some of the latest hospitality trends: ...

A few years ago, I was looking for small-scale furniture to fit a nook in our house, and found just what I wanted at a conference center. Unfortunately, they couldn’t sell it to me, and their distributor only worked with facilities, not individual...

A recent meeting hosted by the Travel Business Roundtable with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce brought together government folks—including Secretary Of State Colin Powell and Norman Y. Mineta, Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation—and industry...

Scary article from USA Today on high-tech ID cards designed to "prevent armed terrorists from boarding a plane by posing as airport workers or law officers...The Transportation Security Administration still is experimenting with biometric...

Congratulations to James Youngblood (shown at right in the photo), chief executive officer, Heart Rhythm Society, and Richard B. Green, CASE, vice president of industry relations and association sales, Marriott International, who were feted by...

I was just up in Toronto for the past few days at a meeting, and found a hotel restaurant that was no typical hotel restaurant--Toula, on the 38th floor of the Westin Harbour Castle. (The hotel, which has its own conference center, also looks like...