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Breaking the record for the largest convention in Florida history, the American Dental Association (ADA) drew 49,960 attendees to Orlando for its annual meeting this past fall. When the ADA last met at the Orlando County Convention Center in 1992...

Airplane food: You can only call it haute cuisine because it's served at a haute of 35,000 feet. Given its functional nature, the best a traveler can hope for is good nutrition. Alas, that is only selectively true, according to the second annual...

In a policy letter issued last spring, the American Medical Association (AMA) stipulated that international conference sponsors wishing to have their meetings designated for Category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award (PRA)...

With little on-the-scene fanfare but a fair amount of premeeting lobbying, delegates at the Convention Liaison Council (CLC) approved a major restructuring of the organization at its November meeting in Fort Worth, TX...

Our future depends on our ability to be adept at both management and technology," announced American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) President R. William Taylor, CAE, at the general session of ASAE's first combined management and...

PICTURE the scene. It's several years before your organization's big meeting. You've just received the hotel's signed contract proposal incorporating all of the issues that you've negotiated with the property. All you have to do is counter-sign...

Our journey into high-yield marketing strategies began with a discussion of reach and frequency: The size and identity of the group to whom you are promoting your meeting, and the number of messages they receive about it. Next, we introduced the...

The Hickey Auditorium at the new Conference Center at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is as slick a meeting room as you will ever see, with just about every high-tech presentation device known to man, and a few that...