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The Business Booster There are many more ways that the business world can use golf than you might imagine. Fortunately, there are plenty of firms out there to help you [...]

All for One, One for All At the most recent customer-golf event held by Successful Meetings and sister publication MeetingNews, host property Pinehurst Resort allowed a truly unusual competition to [...]

Encompassing more than 500,000 square feet of Orlando's Orange County Convention Center, the PGA Merchandise Show that takes place each January is the single biggest golf-gift showroom in the world. [...]

Has Golf Gotten a Bad Rap? The recent lobbying-abuse scandals on Capitol Hill involving Jack Abramoff and various members of Congress have brought about an interesting development: the grilling of [...]

Okay, so you're an occasional golfer who can hold your own when invited to a business golf event. In fact, your boss knows that's the case, too--which is why you're [...]

Okay, so you're an occasional golfer who can hold your own when invited to a business golf event. In fact, your boss knows that's the case, too--which is why you're [...]

Heading into 2005, planners are surprisingly optimistic about where they stand in the area of negotiation. First, a comparison of SOI reports from January 2001, January 2003, and today shows [...]

Andrea Gold has had a rough time of it lately. The president of Gold Star Speakers Bureau in Tucson, AZ, has been dealing with meeting planners who are often unsatisfied [...]

Over the past few years, the televised images of dozens of executives being led from courthouses in handcuffs have made us shake our heads in amazement. After all, we say, [...]

It probably wasn't intentional that in late July, the International Association of Assembly Management (IAAM) met in Reno while the International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus (IACVB) met in [...]

From the start of the economic downturn that arrived in late 2000, association meetings have been on the minds of many companies to an extent that's unusual in a time [...]

As Bill Harris stood at the podium on a bright, warm, mid-May morning in New York, you'd have never guessed from his demeanor that the most stressful 96 hours of [...]

A stroll around the Gaylord Opryland Hotel Convention Center in late April produced a scene that would warm the heart of any corporate meeting planner. For five days, more than [...]

Hauling In the Heavy Hitters To give golf-event attendees a memorable experience, many planners hire male or female players from the pro golf tours to participate in their events. These [...]

NOT THAT YOU HAVE TO BE told this, but it sure is an interesting time for the economy, and for meetings. Consider this: Corporate spending on employee training declined in [...]

BESIDES THE WAR ON TERROR, THE nightly news regularly reminds us of one other development: Once the economic bubble burst at the end of the '90s, executive behavior that wasn't [...]

INTERESTING TIMES FOR THE BOSSES on whose shoulders responsibility for making tough decisions falls. In these tough times, when site selection for top-echelon management meetings is especially sensitive, destinations that [...]

LET'S FACE IT: MOST of you have been knocked around in the business arena for the better part of three years. Even if an organization didn't drastically cut the number [...]

THIS YEAR, CORPORATE HOSPITality at professional golf events isn't what it used to be. But that doesn't mean the business is in the dumps, either. In fact, sales directors at [...]

DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU CRAZY when someone in your organization tries to plan a meeting, but doesn't consult with you? After all, you're the expert, yet most folks simply don't [...]

THE SLUMPING ECONOMY OF the past two years has produced at least one upside for meeting planners: more choices on where to hold their events. But in addition to the [...]

AS A MEETING PLANNER, YOU CAN APPREciate how difficult it is to get three industry bigwigs together at one time to engage in frank discussion--especially when the three are direct [...]

Who's the best person to prevent knowledge loss in your organization? You are! Here's how IS THERE ANY DOUBT THAT 2002 WAS A BAD YEAR to be an employee? With [...]

IN 1995, STEPHEN SPAULDING GOT educated. It was his first year as a planner for Bear Stearns, and he was entrusted with coordinating a financial-education conference for 1,400 clients. But [...]

MEETING PLANNERS ARE intimately familiar with the idea of lead times. But while planners often gripe that theirs are too short, consider the plight of business executives and community leaders [...]

AS RECENTLY AS 18 MONTHS AGO, THE words 'meeting' and 'inexpensive' weren't heard very often in the same sentence. Business was bustling, people were traveling, and many meetings shifted towards [...]

IN THE WEEKS AFTER SEPTember 11, newspaper headlines blared the dire news: 'Business travel grinds to a halt,' read one. 'Road warriors staying home in record numbers,' noted another. But [...]

SITTING AT HIS DESK, JACK Gabelhausen smiles as he recalls snippets from a recent business trip: the collective growl of gleaming, V-twin engines; the faint smell of spent Fuel breezing [...]

IN FEBRUARY 2001, SCOTT HEN-derson landed a prime tournament planning job. Twelve months later, he happily relinquished it. Why? Mostly because he had to. The event he managed, the PGA [...]

TO HEAR GOLF EVENT PLANNERS talk about it, 2002 will be a year that tests every bit of their professional mettle. 'It's been a real cold slap in the face,' [...]

WHEN IS BIGGER BETTER? In the case of paychecks or hamburgers, always. In the case of hospitality management, not always. After all, the term 'consolidation' reminds many conference planners of [...]

A BUSINESS EXECUTIVE FROM 1952 is transported into the present and given this mission: Plan a meeting. It shouldn't be too much for him (yes, him) to handle, right? After [...]

2006 was a year when there was a changing of the guard at many CVBs around the country. Fort Worth, Orlando, San Diego, San Francisco, and St. Louis saw their [...]

This month marks the 30th anniversary of MeetingNews' first issue. To commemorate that milestone in a way befitting our mission--to deliver in-depth perspectives that help our readers do their jobs [...]

The dates have been circled on your calendar for months. Your division's annual meeting is about to take place at a lovely resort, and you've been preoccupied with your chief [...]

There's plenty more to New York than the enormous, eponymous GOTHAM down south. Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse are BUSTLING cities with excellent meeting facilities, cool downtown districts, and friendly [...]

IN 1999, THE NATIONAL HARDWARE SHOW, run by Norwalk, CT-based Reed Exhibitions in conjunction with the American Hardware Manufacturers Association (AHMA), filled 1.2 million square feet of Chicago's McCormick Place. [...]

HIGHLIGHTS: As 2004 dawns, the Palm Beach County Convention Center, just across the Intracoastal Waterway from Palm Beach, is open for business. In the meantime, hotels, resorts, and attractions throughout [...]

FROM THE NAMES OF THE COM-panies represented on the stage, you could tell that this topic-discussed before a standing-room-only crowd at Meeting Professionals International's World Education Congress, held in August-warranted [...]

AS IF YOU DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW, recent news on the economic front hasn't been very promising. To wit: The forecast for economic growth for all of 2003 was revised downward [...]

THE WORLD WOULD BE A MUCH simpler place if everyone wanted to talk business over steak and Merlot. But that's not the case, and sometimes you simply must step out [...]

HIGHLIGHTS: So close, and so exotic, and--in recent contrast to much of the U.S., so warm! Cancun and the Riviera Maya abound with several newly-built properties, age-old cities, and untamed [...]

CLOSE YOUR EYES AND CONJURE AN IMAGE of Richard Branson standing alongside Herb Kelleher. Now, wipe the Cheshire-cat smirk from Branson's face and flick the burning cigarette from Kelleher's mouth. [...]

IT'S A FACT OF LIFE: THE farther one goes in the world of business, the less time he or she has to devote to a fitness regimen. So if you [...]

ALTHOUGH NEARLY EVERY destination throughout the United States has suffered a drop in visitors since mid-September, some places have been more vulnerable than others. In particular, large cities that are [...]

Here are the latest developments taking place on the golf scene outside the United States, and incentive-quality hotels and resorts accompanying them. North America In Canada, the resort towns of [...]