Management

Get Your Meeting On the Air
Reaching thousands of employees or customers around the globe through videoconferencing is not as complicated as you may think. In fact, it only takes these four steps to get started.
By John Robitaille
International Showing
Taking part in a trade show overseas? Don't stumble over barriers presented by different languages, cultures, and management styles. Here are some tips to help you navigate international waters:
By Lynn McCullough
Leap of Faith
For a guy who grew up in what he calls a "very conservative family," parachuting hardly seems like a permissible hobby. "To my parents, a sense of adventure was seen as something positive," says Nic...
By Michelle Gillan
New Euro Meetings Expo Blooms
Neither war, nor SARS, nor a sluggish global economy deflated IMEX: The Worldwide Exhibition for Incentive Travel, Meetings, and Events, at its April 8-10 inaugural show in Frankfurt, Germany. More than...
By Sara J. Welch
Room with a View . . . of Tomorrow
What's your vision of the hotel room of the future? Tiny nanobots scrubbing you as you sleep? An antigravity room? Don't laugh -- 54 percent of a hospitality-industry audience surveyed in 2000 believed...
By Michael Goldstein
Service With a Smile
The steep drop in travel in 2002 has acted as a "double whammy" for many destinations around the country. The reason: Last year's room-tax revenues determine this year's budget for many convention and...
By Robert Carey
The Short Report - 2003-06-01
An April survey of 280 corporate travel managers by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives and travel consultancy Runz-heimer International, suggests a brighter outlook for business travel....
By Ben Chapman
A World at War
The bombing of Baghdad had not yet begun, but it had already taken its toll on Ramon Alvarez's event. To a casual observer on the floor of the Yucatan Siglo XXI Convention Center in Merida, Mexico, six...
By Sara J. Welch
At Home in the World
Recovering from a long transatlantic flight from New York to the Balkans, the last thing most people want to do is munch on some bear meat.
By Ben Chapman, Lee Server, April Iommazzo, and Rachel Gecker
Barbarians at the Buffet
Invite Cynthia Lett to a business affair and chances are someone will offend her etiquette sensibilities. Lett's business, after all, is business etiquette. She is executive director of the...
By Michele Marchetti
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