The Vienna Convention Bureau has announced that Andrea Bauer, who had served as marketing manager for the United States and Canada for the past seven years, has retired in order to pursue a PhD in political science. Peter Martin has assumed her...
Small, round, and verdant, Kauai is appropriately called the "Garden Isle." Within her 33-mile length and 25-mile width, colors define Kauai: from the deep greens and purples at Princeville on the North Shore, to the yellow sand beaches on the...
I am a strong advocate of studying other industries. If we look only at case examples from within our own field, we limit our horizons and run the risk of never fully actualizing our programs, products, and services. (See the September/October...
Occupancy rates are up. Room rates are up. Clearly, the seller's market continues. As a result, meeting planners can't negotiate the same deals they used to. Instead, hotels are imposing early departure charges, tough cancellation provisions, and...
Don't expect to win the title of Most Famous Meeting Planner at Grand Traverse (MI) Resort. That title will probably be held forever by Bill Clinton, who in 1987, while governor of Arkansas, served as meeting planner for the National Governors'...
"Are you kidding?" says Norman B. Kahn, MD, director, division of education, American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) in Kansas City, MO, when asked if specialty society meetings were experiencing an attendance drop-off in today's managed care...
The International Association for Exposition Management (IAEM) drew a record 2,238 registrants to Atlanta for its December 2 to 5 annual conference and trade show. In keeping with the association's efforts to balance representation from members...
CLC has appointed the Resource Center for Associations in Wheat Ridge, CO, headed by Francine Butler, as its new management firm at the meeting in November, the first under the new CLC's governance structure...