IACC Starts Inspection Program

The International Association of Conference Centers is launching a third-party facility-inspection program, IACC president Geoff Lawson announced last week at the organization's "State of the Industry" presentation in New York City. Ever since IACC was founded in 1981, membership has been based on "the honor system," Lawson said. That is, IACC executives accepted a facility management's own claims that it met IACC's 31 universal criteria for conference room design, conference and business