The latest on the destinations, food and beverage, speakers, and technology behind the business of meeting planning.
Defining Green: What's Hype? What's Real? By Lisa Plummer - 04/21/2008
The tradeshow industry may be evolving in an environmentally responsible direction, but at this stage, when anyone can claim their show is green, one question persists: What really is green anyway? For anyone interested in sustainability, the concept of what constitutes a green show, product or service, and how this can be measured is a confusing one – until now. More
IMEX: Environmental Agenda By Gary Tufel and Rachel Wimberly - 04/21/2008 IMEX, billed by U.K.-based show organizer Regent Exhibitions as the essential worldwide exhibition for meetings and incentive travel, will be held April 22-24 at Messe Frankfurt. This year's sixth edition meets the BS 8901 Sustainable Event Standard and has an expanded education program.
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Update On New and Expanding Venues 02/25/2008
A summary of Tradeshow Week's semiannual update of venues that are being built, expanded or renovated follows. It tracks these construction projects through their various phases, from feasibility study through grand opening.
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Supply and Demand: Every City Has Its Story 02/25/2008
There are more than 11 million square feet of new exhibit and meeting space in the pipeline and scheduled to become available over the next few years. It is easy to draw conclusions about what that much space will mean to the industry in the future, but the truth is is means something different in every city a show organizer considers.
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Venue Trends: Doing Double Duty By Lisa Plummer - 02/25/2008
Peer into the convention center crystal ball and what you see won't surprise you: more and more space all the time. What is new is the high-end quality of space in tomorrow's venue, the dual purposes it will serve and the extra revenue it will generate. The time is ripe for the mixed-use event center-slash-lecture theater.
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Health Care Shows: More Space Isn't Only Cure By Stephanie Corbin - 02/25/2008
Health care tradeshows and meetings have become such plums for convention and visitors bureaus to land that some cities – Cleveland, for one – are using them as part of their pitch when they go to the public to sell voters on paying for convention center construction or expansion.
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Convention Centers: What Tier Is This, Anyway? By Rachel Wimberly - 02/25/2008
Convention centers in Tier I cities – Las Vegas, Orlando and Chicago – all have either expanded recently, plan to or are at least thinking about it. But why do civic leaders in much smaller locales get the idea that enough groups are interested in committing years in advance to visit them that they need new space too?
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Behind The Story Michael Hart, Editor-in-Chief, Tradeshow Week May 14, 2008 What’s Going on in Las Vegas?
At the end of last week, I attended the annual Las Vegas meeting of the Southwest cha... More
Event Tech Blog Stephen Nold, President, Advon Technologies May 13, 2008 Hi, I am NOT a Mac…
When you watch a Mac commercial, you can see very quickly that I resemble the PC gu... More
Event Tech Blog Stephen Nold, President, Advon Technologies May 8, 2008 Introductions
Introduction
Hey there everybody
Please don't romp or roam
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