My last column for Medical Meetings was written shortly after the London bombings. In this issue our attention is focused on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, its impact on the medical meetings community, and the recovery of New Orleans...

Faced with several years of declining attendance, the Air Conditioning Contractors of America decided it was time to reinvent its annual conference. Among the many changes instituted at the 2002 conference, there is one that really captured the...

Maria Monreal-Cameron is a determined woman. In January 2001, the president and CEO of the Milwaukee-based Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin traveled to Washington, D.C., to give a presentation outlining why her chamber should be awarded...

There's no doubt meeting planners across the board are feeling a budget crunch. With travel and lodging costs on the rise, many planners find themselves doing more with less. In this budget-competitive environment, government meetings often find...

Planners with meetings scheduled for the near future in areas hit by Katrina and other recent hurricanes have lots of questions concerning the legal implications of either holding the meetings as scheduled, or canceling, moving, or rescheduling...

When Hurricane Katrina slammed through the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced — and so were a whole lot of medical meetings. Cancellation wasn't a possibility for many societies, both because they needed to disseminate the...