Just a year or two ago luxury hotels were riding at the very crest of the seller’s market, a segment of the hotel industry that many experts

Although still relatively few in number, luxury hotels have been opening at a record pace in recent times. With more new properties scheduled to open

Whether groups like to argue the finer points of riesling or buy a couple of bottles of locally made cherry wine to take home, the Midwest boasts

If you think the hospitality and meetings industry took a hit after the events of 9/11, take a look at what’s happening now. Industry analysts

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The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art is presenting Norman Rockwell: Fact and Fiction from Sept. 12 to Jan. 10, 2010.

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With many hotels more flexible at the bargaining table these days, are convention centers also taking a softer stance on negotiated contract terms?

When the corporate group market tanked after 9/11, CVBs and meetings hotels sought refuge in the SMERF (social, military, education, religious and

This issue is all about the money. There’s not a lot of it going around these days, so even those who didn’t have much of it to throw