Joseph F. Durocher, 61, Nottingham, N.H., associate professor of Hospitality Management at the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics, Durham, N.H., lost his courageous battle with cancer on Saturday, July 18...
Meeting Professionals International has created a modified hosted-buyer program for its annual conference, MeetDifferent, scheduled for February 20–23 at Moon Palace in Cancun, Mexico. The first 100 qualified meeting planners will not pay a...
Police are still investigating the murder last week of meeting industry veteran Ben Novack, Jr...
The 2.3 million-square-foot Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., is finally getting its headquarters hotel. Construction on the new $537 million, 1,167-room Marriott Marquis is scheduled to begin this fall, with a targeted...
Maritz Travel Co. continues to build alliances, as evidenced by the recent announcement that it has partnered with Freeman as its preferred provider of audiovisual, multimedia, and creative services. The multimedia and creative services will be...
When staff of Meeting Professionals International chose Cancun, Mexico, for the association’s 2010 MeetDifferent conference, it had many hotel options from which to choose. After several site inspections, MPI settled on Moon Palace, the crown...
You can’t ignore the reports of violence in Acapulco. But you should get all the facts. Earlier this year, Alonzo Peña, U.S. Department of Homeland Security attaché to Mexico, explained, “Violence in Mexico is not as dangerous to U.S. tourists as...
The incentive conference had been booked for two years at a resort in Cancun. Then reports of violence related to drug trafficking in Mexico began to surface, and then increase...
Los Cabos, located at the southernmost tip of the 1,000-mile long Baja California Peninsula, comprises two small and very different towns—lively Cabo San Lucas and laid-back San Jose del Cabo—that are joined by a 20-mile corridor of seaside...
Official warnings about travel to Mexico because of the H1N1 virus have been lifted. Cruise lines have returned to Mexican ports. And tourism officials are doing all they can to show meeting planners why Mexico belongs back on their short lists of...