June 17, 2010

ASAE Announces Board Nominations

Meetings Focus - the Destination Experts

June 17, 2010


ASAE Announces Board Nominations ASAE announced board nominations for ASAE and the ASAE Foundation for 2011. Read more »
Toronto’s Direct Energy Centre Wins Award UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, awarded Direct Energy Centre with its annual Operations Award. Read more »
MPI WEC Trade Show to End After 2010 MPI will no longer have a trade show at its international convention after this year. Read more »
Starwood Introduces Sustainable Meetings Guidelines Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide introduced sustainable meetings guidelines at every North American property in its portfolio. Read more »

Meetings East June 2010 Digital Edition
	In this edition, we're featuring a Hot Topic story exploring The Meeting of the Future, with input from some top meetings industry and business thinkers: Maddy Dychtwald, Charles Allen, Corbin Ball, Daphne Meyers and Stan Aaronson. Also, our feature on convention centers includes a sidebar with a sneak peak at what the new Pennsylvania Convention Center expansion will include, via a slideshow.
To view our June 2010 digital edition, click here.

Northern Ohio

Center Stage

By KELLY CRUMRIN

Ohio adopted the tagline the "Heart of It All" in the 1980s. While state tourism authorities have been known to employ hyperbole from time to time, in this case they were stating the obvious. Ohio, especially Northern Ohio, is the gateway between the Midwest and the Northeast. Its highways are flowing with transcontinental

commerce and its principal cities—Cleveland, Akron, Canton and Toledo—are within a one-day drive of half of the U.S. population. Lake Erie provides more than 300 miles of coastline along the northern border, dotted with busy seaports handling millions of tons of cargo.

Read more about Northern Ohio ...

Conference Centers: The Serious Solution Webinar

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Conference centers offer venues at which meetings are the focus and meeting participants can concentrate on the business. For meeting professionals, conference centers offer an ease of planning and budgeting. In this webinar, top industry educator Joan Eisenstodt discovers what benefits—from ease of planning to perception—meeting in a dedicated learning environment such as a conference center provides.

Sponsored by: Banff Centre, Hyatt Regency DFW, Blair County Convention Center, IACC and Wyndham Peachtree Hotel & Conference Center.

Visit MeetingsFocus.com/webinars to register or learn more.


Planners’ Perspective – Northern Ohio C. David Dunn, Contract Representative Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Bucyrus, Ohio Describe your event. This will be the sixth year we will be meeting in Toledo. We are expecting between 35,000 and 40,000 to attend. We meet at Seagate Center in downtown Toledo. Why did you decide to host the meeting in Toledo? The cooperation of Seagate Center management, the CVB and the city have helped bring us to Toledo. Parking is always a big issue for strangers coming into a city. Toledo was able to provide what we needed. Read more Planner’s Perspective – Northern Ohio »
Site Scene Maryland Hilton Garden Inn and Homewood Suites by Hilton recently opened a dual-branded development in Rockville-Gaithersburg as a two-building, six-story property. The Hilton Garden Inn Rockville-Gaithersburg features 112 guest rooms offering complimentary wired and Wi-Fi high-speed Internet access and high-definition LCD televisions. The hotel also features a complimentary 24-hour business center and a lounge and bar area. The Homewood Suites by Hilton Rockville-Gaithersburg offers 87 studio, one- and two-bedroom suites with high-definition flat-screen televisions. The two brands also share several public amenities, including 2,800 square feet of flexible meeting space. For more information, call the Hilton Garden Inn at 240.507.1800 or call the Homewood Suites at 240.507.1900. Read more Site Scene»


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