An exclusive event industry study from Special Events

Yes to events, but no to better budgets in 2010. That's the reading from this year's "Corporate Event Marketplace Study," presented every year by Special Events Magazine...

Montreal's legendary Fairmont the Queen Elizabeth launched its Meetings that Matter programs last week, which offer planners options of creating either eco-friendly meetings—the Meeting for the Earth option—or meetings that promote world peace—the...

Sleek, curved check-in counters from Decor 'N More offer a stylish option to standard counters, the manufacturer says...

Don't run scared; tough times call for bold action, this event expert says

Apparently, more than 25 years in catering just wasn't enough for Syd Sexton. Even though she still holds the post of president and partner at Denver's Gourmet Fine Catering, which she launched after running Alex Brooks Fine Catering for six years...

For most companies, "account management" is usually about selling what you've already got to customers you already have. In contrast, "business development" focuses on finding new clients, and sometimes creating entirely new products to serve them...

Patricia (Patti) Roscoe “never looked back,” she says, when, after 15 years in the hospitality industry, she started her own DMC in 1981. Business boomed, and by 1997, her Carlsbad, Calif.-based DMC had blossomed into the nationwide PRA...

When it comes to the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' annual Grammy Awards after-party, event producer Along Came Mary has an ace up its sleeve — its long-standing relationship with the academy. “We know them really well and they...

As an event planner for the Greater Kansas City [Mo.] Chamber of Commerce for 18 years, Bill Svoboda learned a lot about small businesses with big aspirations. It was their successes that inspired him and John Short, CMP, to strike out on their...