Save for dietitians, there is no other group that should know and care more about the food they consume than physicians. Yet there seems to be a disconnect between what medical meeting planners say is important in meeting planning and what foods...

Planners who move their meetings from city to city should compare labor rates in new destinations so they can estimate costs and manage exhibitor expectations. One tried-and-true resource is Tradeshow Week's annual survey of U.S. and Canadian...

“Is the ACCME trying to put itself out of business?” commented one CME provider during the American Medical Association's conference on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration, held in September in Baltimore. During the conference, Murray Kopelow, MD...

OPENED IN OCTOBER, The Lodge at Buckberry Creek, in East Tennessee's Smoky Mountains, is modeled after the “Great Camps” of the Adirondacks. Nestled above Gatlinburg, the lodge has 46 suites ranging from 575 square feet to 900 square feet in area...

With revenue up 18 percent in the first five months of 2004, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide is enjoying a “record rebound year,” said Bob Cotter, president and COO, at a Motivation Show client luncheon held in late September in Chicago...

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BY MID-OCTOBER labor disputes had caused a lockout at 14 San Francisco hotels and a strike watch at another 23 hotels in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., while negotiators haggled over wages, health insurance costs, pensions, and contract...