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When a Meeting Outgrows the Hotel

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:00 EDT

What you need to know when it’s time to move your meeting from a hotel to a convention center

The New Cityscape

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:00:00 EDT

When considering destinations for her association's annual meeting, Deirdre Ross, director of conference services at the American Library Association, looks at a variety of criteria, including whether or not the convention center is in a downtown location. In other words, it has to be walkable for her attendees. It's not the deciding factor, but it's definitely a big issue when I consider cities because

Rochester Wants You

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EDT

When a military group is in town on a site inspection visit, it certainly doesn't hurt if they happen to bump into a couple of war heroes, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and former Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.). That's exactly what happened in Rochester, Minn., where McCain and Dole were in town for a speaking engagement when they ran into officials from the Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the

Hotels with Heart

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:00:00 EDT

Here's a hotel title that you don't run into every day: community projects manager. That's the position that Jo Licata holds at the San Francisco Hilton. With overall responsibility for the hotel's charitable and community efforts, she has held this post for 13 years, and, to the best of her knowledge, she was the first and might still be the only person at an individual hotel to be so titled. But

Right This Way

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:00:00 EDT

Medical meetings are one of those hallmark groups you really want to go after, says Tom Noonan, president and chief executive officer at the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Authority. There are a lot of them out there and they are a high-rated piece of business. As the largest segment of the meetings market representing about 23 percent of all meetings and conventions in the U.S., according