Against a backdrop of Haleakala, the world's largest dormant volcano, picture-perfect waterfalls plunge into glistening pools, majestic mountains beckon with little-known tropical trails, and the sun-drenched beaches exert their mighty pull on 2.5...

The big news at the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Management & Technology Conference, held December 7 to 9 at the Baltimore Convention Center, was the announcement of the ASAE/Microsoft Technology Alliance Program. The...

Even in 1916, writer W. Somerset Maugham called Honolulu "the meeting place of east and west." Today, Honolulu is the only U.S. financial center where investment managers can communicate during the same business day with New York and the Far East...

Association Notes One more word on medical associations and their relationships with for-profit organizations: In December, the American Medical Association (AMA) declared a moratorium on all corporate arrangements involving the AMA name and logo...

The Convention Liaison Council (CLC) has taken the first step toward developing industry standards or recommended practices in the meetings, convention, and exposition industry by authorizing the hiring of a consultant with expertise in technology...

Brand New In Cambridge, MA, the 210-room University Park Hotel at MIT topped out in September. The property, which is scheduled to open next summer, offers the Executive Conference Center on its third floor, with a business center and 15,500...

The fifth annual survey of physician preferences in continuing medical education (CME) includes one new question about medical association membership (with a somewhat surprising result) along with questions about factors influencing the decision...

Medical Meetings' Annual M&D Awards program honors the 40 hotels, resorts, and conference centers chosen by our readers for merit and distinction in serving the needs of planners of continuing medical education seminars and medical conventions...

The state that is consistently chosen as the number one preferred destination in Medical Meetings' Annual Physicians Preferences Survey has good news for meeting planners: an infusion of new space, as convention centers scramble to keep pace with...

In an unfavorable--but not unexpected--ruling, the Federal appellate court denied a mandamus petition filed by four medical societies targeted as defendants in a mass tort suit. The petition was the last in a series of efforts made by the...