Chris Elliott has a list of the five worst airline fees and how you can avoid them. Unfortunately, all too often the answer is either "you can't," "fly another airline that doesn't charge this fee," or inconvenience yourself in ways small (take a...
The bedbugs are back and there's going to be some trouble ... I've periodically been hearing about the resurgence of bedbugs in the U.S. nowadays, but it hit close to home this summer when a friend's house briefly became a haven for the little...
Another one from today's Boston Globe: Breakfast meetings the toast of town. I knew the three-martini lunch was buried a long time ago, but I didn't realize that breakfast was the new "it" meal for business meetings. It makes sense in terms of...
This morning's Boston Globe had an article about a new interactive gaming facility called Espionage that sounds pretty amazing. It sounds sort of like a real-life version of a video game, where what happens changes based on how your group responds...
Jeff Hurt is having a good time naming conference planning afflictions to avoid. My favorites (and there are 12 more that are just as good): ...
Seth Godin is talking about the use of color in airport design and how it can ease things for travelers, but the same holds true for conference signage, doesn't it? Why not mark your session tracks with color? And your conference's Web site (reg...
Check out Hospitality Net's 10 Annoying Hotel Room Designs. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I don't think I've experienced #1, those shower half-doors. But that would be annoying. The rest I can vouch for. Can I add a few? Such as: ...
I just got a press release about my company's selecting housing and registration vendors for our corporate shows. That's never happened before! The funny thing is that I didn't know until I got the press release, since I'm not actually involved in...