Barbara Mastroddi was recently surprised by a new add-on fee while planning a breakfast meeting. “On the hotel's menu for ‘continental-style breakfasts,’ there was a line that read ‘Maximum service time of one hour; with seating add $2.50 per...
“The pharmaceutical industry is a laboratory for best practices in meeting planning,” said Christine Duffy, president and CEO, Maritz Travel Co., St. Louis, as she opened the First Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, held March 31 to...
THIS COMING FALL, Sandia Resort & Casino will open a greatly expanded facility 10 minutes north of Albuquerque, N.M.'s, international airport. A new hotel will have 228 guest rooms and 35,000 square feet of meeting space, including a 28,000...
IN LATE MARCH, New Jersey's Acting Governor Richard J. Codey signed legislation requiring that physicians take “cultural-competency training” in order to obtain a license or be relicensed by the State Board of Medical Examiners. The intent of the...
“If we book a resort, I can lose my job.” That's what a pharma meeting planner told Michael T. Aylmer, senior director, pharmaceutical sales, KSL Resorts, Downingtown, Pa., soon after the release of the PhRMA code. Issued in 2002 by the...