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in the works FLYING HIGH, Toronto's Pearson International Airport will open its revamped Terminal 1 in 2008, featuring spas, fine dining and Wi-Fi. The airport also joined with Verified Identity [...]

New on the Scene eat here FRENCH FARE. Old Montreal's renowned Hotel Le St-James recently opened XO Le Restaurant in the property's Grand Salon. Hailed for its fresh French cuisine [...]

New on the Scene sail away ON THE WATERFRONT. Argosy Cruises hosts groups of eight to 700 for fully catered functions on Elliott Bay and Puget Sound. New for this [...]

Destination overview Quebec City, with its walled Old City, narrow cobblestone lanes and aura of history and romance, is by far the most European of destinations in North America. The [...]

Destination overview Shanghai is the showpiece of 21st-century China's red-hot economy and an awe-inspiring example of urban dynamism. This bustling port city is alight with glittering skyscrapers, exquisite hotels, sophisticated [...]

Now on the Scene must see HISTORY LESSON. The landmark Gloucester Square Mansions were just named among Toronto's most important heritage sites. Thirty rooms and a conference center can be [...]

New on the Scene stay here SUITE VIEWS. Close on the heels of unveiling its US$44 million Mount Temple wing, the 550-room Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise has finished a $6.1 [...]

New on the Scene check it out BEBOP SPOT. A recent renovation bumped capacity at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley up to 400 for a night of hot jazz and ultra-fresh Pacific [...]

New on the Scene meet here INDUSTRIAL CHIC. The Distillery District was once an abandoned Victorian-era hooch factory. Recently, the site has been transformed into a fun and inviting sector. [...]

New on the Scene SADDLE UP. The Calgary Stampede ropes in more than a million rodeo lovers each summer. The Stampede's Roundup Centre, Calgary's largest trade show venue featuring 389,000 [...]

The Greater Cincinnati Convention and Visitors Bureau, already under pressure from a boycott on conventions following the 2001 police shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, has suffered a new [...]

Sir: Charles Moore (The Spectator's Notes, 11 December) is misleading on two fronts. 'Because of Islam's prohibition of the depiction of the human face,' he says, 'Muslim countries have not [...]

Several mid-tier meetings destinations are suffering disappointing numbers, with convention and visitor bureaus in those cities under increased pressure to generate sales. Baltimore, for example, is experiencing what its boosters [...]

At its 2007 Annual Meeting held in January in Toronto, the Chicago-based Professional Convention Management Association unveiled a new online meeting research and measurement program, MeetingMetrics, developed in cooperation with [...]

So many corporate labors have dreamed of being in a rock band, sublimating their desires behind closed doors by shredding on air guitar to the Kinks or singing along to [...]

Youthful, diverse and progressive, Vancouver ranks as one of North America's most attractive destinations for groups of all sizes. Everywhere in this city, the largest in British Columbia, skyscrapers are [...]

Among properties leading the rebirth of the city's hospitality industry is the Renaissance Arts Hotel on Tchoupitoulas Street in the city's Warehouse Arts District. Near the New Orleans Convention Center [...]

On Sept. 25, the Canadian government abolished the Goods and Services Tax Visitor's Rebate Program, which will make doing business in that country costlier for U.S.-based meeting planners, exhibitors and [...]

The island nation of Taiwan, about 100 miles off the coast of the Chinese mainland, comprises 14,000 square miles of rugged mountains, coastal plains and highlands. Since 1949, democratic Taiwan's [...]

Starwood Hotels & Resorts' first 'aloft' brand hotels will not debut until 2008, but thousands of people already are roaming the lobby, guest rooms and lounges in an online version [...]

Singapore, at the southern end of the Malay peninsula, is a clean, well-organized and highly developed city-state with one of Asia's best standards of living. With its tropical climate and [...]

Vancouver, British Columbia-based OneWorld, the air carrier alliance that includes American Airlines, British Airways and Qantas, in late July extended three fare options to groups for the first time. Groups [...]

Who hasn't come face-to-face with a churlish client, a belligerent boss or an acrimonious attendee? Roberta Cava, author of Dealing with Difficult People (www.cavaconsulting.com), says not to bother negotiating with [...]

After Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans last August, thousands of citizens found themselves trapped at the Superdome and the massive, mile-long Morial Convention Center. And those assembly halls-cum-shelters of [...]

The blogosphere is growing by 12,000 blogs (or electronic journals) each year, says Catherine Kaputa, author of U R a Brand! (Davies-Black), offering planners a great opportunity to enhance their [...]

In the darkest hours of the Cold War, the U.S. government excavated a deep hole under one of the nation's most exclusive hotels, the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, [...]

Has a veritable glut of meetings industry foundations exhausted the generosity of charitable donors such as American Airlines, GES Exposition Services, Hilton and Hyatt? A 'foundation funding task force' assembled [...]

Composing a winning business proposal is as much art as it is skill. Carl Dickson, publisher of Capture-Planning.com, a website offering education in business development, shares these suggestions. OFFER THE [...]

Along with the exploding popularity of iPods has come a thriving marketplace of iPod covers, to protect those little music machines from all the abuse they take inside backpacks, purses [...]

The ongoing battle of the American Hardware Manufacturers Association vs. Reed Exhibitions, which has been waged in courtrooms and on trade show floors across the country, now could be bound [...]

It's a task that sends shivers down the spines of even the most confident and professional of employees. But it's not difficult to become better at cold calling, says John [...]

In an atmosphere of hope and some confusion, on Dec. 1, 2005, the boards of the International Association for Exhibition Management and the Center for Exhibition Industry Research proposed a [...]

Cross the pond in style: Eos Airlines, a new carrier flying one roundtrip daily between New York's JFK and London's Stansted airports, now offers transatlantic air service designed to compete [...]

A newly passed law in California meant to limit fax transmissions sent without permission has rankled many in the meetings industry. 'California may be 'terminating' itself as a place open [...]

In the blue Canadian Rockies, Lake Louise, Alberta, is a wonderland for skiers and wintersports enthusiasts. In spring, silent forests come alive with greenery, and golden poppies bloom along the [...]

Some of the nation's biggest airlines are cutting back capacity and slashing routes in response to sky-high jet fuel prices, while planners debate the impact such cuts will have on [...]

Good news for beach bums and other warm-weather aficionados living in (or visiting) chilly northern dimes: InterContinental's Holiday Inn brand is introducing indoor water parks--dubbed 'Holidomes'--at many of its properties. [...]