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An enlightening look at the many ways your meeting can benefit others 'Goodness is the only investment that never fails,' wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden, his ode to nature [...]

In the past five and a half years, it has become a cliche to point out that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, 'changed everything.' But in so many [...]

'Goodness is the only investment that never fails,' wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden, his ode to nature and self-reliance. It seems that, both personally and professionally, many meeting planners [...]

Convention and visitor bureaus perform vital community services, from marketing their destinations to rolling out the welcome mat for meeting planners and tourists. And that's profitable work. In a given [...]

On Aug. 10, 2006, authorities in the United Kingdom arrested 21 people thought to be plotting an imminent attack on aircraft using homemade bombs disguised as, among other things, drink [...]

The story of New Orleans one year after Hurricane Katrina is sometimes referred to as a tale of two cities. On the one hand, the historic heart of the Big [...]

As this issue of Meetings & Conventions heads to press, there is new urgency about the earth's growing climate crisis: The venerable Academy of Sciences has issued a report concluding [...]

In the increasingly digitized 21st century, electronic personal privacy is a real and growing concern for meeting planners, attendees and even hoteliers. Identity theft is a significant danger at lodging [...]

The desperate drive to slash costs and streamline operations at U.S. airlines during the past few years has affected group travel programs that have long benefitted meeting, trade show, convention [...]

Charles Darwin wrote of evolution: 'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one that is most adaptable to change.' To [...]

Americans are more concerned with the price and availability of hydrocarbon energy-petroleum and natural gas--than at any time since the oil shocks of the 1970s. This summer's unprecedented hike in [...]

New Orleans sputtered back to life on Sept. 30, 2005--a full month after Hurricane Katrina ripped, flooded and demoralized the city and surrounding Gulf Coast. This Friday morning, the mayor [...]

Planners don't have any easy time of it these days. And if tough contract negotiations, complex logistics and increasing scrutiny by procurement aren't enough of a challenge, insurance meeting planners [...]

Change has come fast along the U.S. border since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. A cornucopia of high-tech gadgetry is revolutionizing the nature of personal identification, while new [...]

Let's face facts: Meetings and events that go overboard on luxurious frills and amenities can spell serious trouble for planners. Not only have the corporate scandals brought about governmental scrutiny [...]

Convention centers are high-profile buildings that connote civic pride and economic power. Often, centers host massive events with a high media profile and VIP attendees from all over the world. [...]

This winter, a wave of news stories on municipal convention center spending and industry demand swept the pages of daily papers and magazines across the country, driven by a scathing [...]

New on the Scene check it out STATION BREAK. Kansas City's Union Station still sports bullet holes from a 1933 'meeting' of lawmen with 'Pretty Boy' Floyd. Today, the station [...]

Tired of airport pat-downs? In late December, responding to hundreds of complaints--particularly from women flyers--the Transportation Security Administration restricted intensive frisking to cases where the metal detector goes off and [...]

In December 2002, when officials gathered in Overland Park, Kan., to cut the ribbon on the 412-room Sheraton Overland Park at the Convention Center, there was good reason for optimism. [...]

On June 23, 2004, word came that Comdex was dead at last. While many were shocked by the demise of the great computer trade event that in its heyday drew [...]

Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote that politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Organizers who prepared this summer's national political conventions might disagree. The [...]

In an era of budget cutbacks and corporate scrutiny, big companies continue to see great value in running incentive programs. For employees, the allure of travel, cash bonuses and expensive [...]

Stan Butler first met Christie Hicks 20 years ago, when she was the newly hired director of sales at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans and he was the meeting planner [...]

Wisconsin's workfare program places people into low-paying jobs without unemployment benefits and the program does not provide job training options that would lift the workers to better paying jobs providing unemployment insurance. Unlike most working Americans, the workfare participants' employment does not allow them to earn entitlement to unemployment insurance should they faultlessly lose their jobs after the the program ends. Without unemployment benefits and job training programs, these workers will struggle to resolve medical, transportation, and housing issues.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina's 145 mph winds and 28-foot storm surge, much of the Gulf Coast of Mississippi lay in smithereens. In coastal Harrison County alone, 87 people [...]

Getting food right is one of the trickiest challenges of event planning. Complicating matters is an endless stream of conflicting dietary news, which makes staying up-to-date on the latest dos [...]

New on the Scene meet here WHISTLER WHILE YOU WORK. The TELUS Whistler Conference Centre completed an expansion last fall. Exhibit space now measures 40,000 square feet, the ballroom contains [...]

Planners' Association Develops Program to Measure 'ROE' At its 2007 Annual Meeting held in January in Toronto, the Chicago-based Professional Convention Management Association unveiled a new online meeting research and [...]

So many corporate laborers 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 [...]

Those of us who grew up in the Washington, D.C., area remember well the name 'Cameron Station.' For generations, this 165-acre site at the confluence of Backlick Run and Holmes [...]