All of the information needed for meeting and destination site selection including destination management companies, conventions and visitor bureaus, tourism boards, hotels, convention centers, exhibit halls and meeting spaces. en-us http://www.tradeshowweek.com/community/Destinations/47364.html?nid=3628 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its http://www.tradeshowweek.com/info/318735.html Terms of Use. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:27:17 MST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6699766.html?nid=3628 In the past few years, two competing Reno, Nev.-based resorts, the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa and Peppermill Resort Spa Casino, spent hundreds of millions of dollars to spruce up their properties. Then the recession hit, so, in an unusual move, they teamed up on a strategic marketing campaign. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6699768.html?nid=3628 For years, city officials in Portland, Ore., and Wilmington, N.C., have wanted anchor hotels next to their convention centers. Recently, when it looked like finally there might be light at the end of the tunnel, both cities' hopes again were dashed. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6699772.html?nid=3628 The Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau has a new sales approach for meetings and conventions, called Roadmap 2010. “We’re reinventing how we position, sell and service as our convention district,” said Gary Sain, president and CEO of the CVB. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6699773.html?nid=3628 Many have credited Jim Wood, president and CEO of the Louisville Convention & Visitors Bureau since 2003, with the home of the Kentucky Derby suddenly emerging as one of the more competitive tradeshow destinations in the United States.Tradeshow Week spoke with Wood recently about the city’s strategy to attract shows, why it has been so successful and what’s next for Louisville. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6695340.html?nid=3628 Even though 2008 was a good year for Macau's tourism business in general and its events business in particular, some issues, such as limiting the number of visits from mainland China to Macau, have made for a rougher 2009. Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6695344.html?nid=3628 The first quarter of this year may have signaled a shift toward a buyer's market for travelers, but the second quarter confirmed in even stronger terms that airfares, hotel room rates and car rental rates fell even lower, according to American Express Business Travel's Business Travel Monitor. Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6695346.html?nid=3628 Several Southeast Asian countries other than China – Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand – have strong exhibition industries. TSW editors take a look at the business in those locations. Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6687174.html?nid=3628 The Sharonville (Ohio) Convention Center, located just north of Cincinnati, will break ground in October for an expansion project to meet demands for more space. The project primarily is financed by $32 million in state bonds, with more funding from hotel taxes in Hamilton County and the city of Sharonville. Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6678505.html?nid=3628 The Anaheim Convention Center recently purchased a herd of cattle for its food service provider, Aramark, from Hearst Ranch in San Simeon, Calif., the nation's largest single-source supplier of free-range, all-natural, grass-fed and grass-finished beef. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6676261.html?nid=3628 When show managers are looking for an international destination that still is close to home, they often turn to the United States’ northern neighbor, Canada. And no wonder: the country, which shares the world’s longest common border with the U.S., long has been an easy trip north. Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6676265.html?nid=3628 One way to get more conventions booked in a city is to offer everything a tradeshow manager possibly could dream of needing all in one place and make it affordable. That’s exactly what Indianapolis’ game plan is with the more than $3 billion investment that the city has in the works. Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6676269.html?nid=3628 At Chicago's McCormick Place, cellular company Cricket Communications has launched a new indoor wireless network by ExteNet Systems that covers all four buildings on the campus, more than 2 million square feet. The indoor wireless network is part of the now contiguous Cricket coverage that stretches more than 60 miles, from Kankakee, Ill. Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6676270.html?nid=3628 The Walter E. Washington (D.C.) Convention Center will get a big boost in the form of a new, 1,167-room anchor hotel that's on tap to open in the first quarter of 2013. In July, the D.C. City Council gave final legislative approval for the public financing component for the $537 million hotel. Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6676271.html?nid=3628 The U.S. Travel Assn. is not the only organization on a mission to increase the number of international visitors to the United States. The San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau and the San Francisco Intl. Airport have partnered to expand their international reach. Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6676272.html?nid=3628 Las Vegas casinos have been hit with a one-two punch during the economic downturn, with more than 400 events canceling since the beginning of the year, as well as tourists holding onto their dollars. As a result, Boyd Gaming, MGM Mirage and Las Vegas Sands all posted lower earnings. Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6673813.html?nid=3628 They may be small countries, but Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands all have something unique to offer tradeshow and meeting professionals looking to host events in the region. The Netherlands takes the cake as the busiest, with two massive venues, Amsterdam RAI in Amsterdam and Royal Dutch Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, but Brussels isn’t far behind, with a big venue of its own. Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6672175.html?nid=3628 The opening, in June, of a new exhibit hall at the Brno Exhibition Centre in Brno, Czech Republic, completes the venue’s expansion. Construction of the new hall, completed in only 10 months, added 15,000 square meters (161,458 square feet) of exhibit space to the center’s existing 123,946 sq. Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6672180.html?nid=3628 Las Vegas still is suffering losses in the number of attendees coming to town for conventions, as well as the number of conventions and meetings hosted there. According to the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority Executive Summary for May, convention attendance slid to 341,846 from 509,482 in the same period last year, a 32.9-percent decrease. Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6672183.html?nid=3628 Las Vegas is not Cleveland; Nashville is not Phoenix – and yet all of them, and many more, have smart, hard-working convention and visitors bureau executives dealing with unique challenges and opportunities. Tradeshow Week editors profile a number of CVB executives who have during the past few years excelled at their jobs, bringing unique gifts to sometimes very idiosyncratic circumstances. Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.tradeshowweek.com/article/CA6670983.html?nid=3628 New York's Public Authority Control Board approved a plan for the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center of New York. Construction on the proposed renovation and expansion will begin immediately, according to the governor's office. Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST