The "Healing Hearts" fund-raiser held Dec. 12 at BillboardLIVE in the South Beach section of Miami raised more than $20,000 for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, according to event organizers...

Although special event professionals aren’t predicting the double-digit growth rates for the industry that they have in the past, an informal survey in November by Special Events Magazine reveals that they still expect a respectable 7 percent...

The tragic events of Sept. 11 have taught all of us in the event planning industry to put business in the right perspective. What may often seem like a "crisis" in our industry is nothing compared with the tragedies experienced by thousands of...

In the October issue of Special Events Magazine, The Daly News offered an overview of the Industry Summit 2001. Economics and other issues surrounding the incentive industry in North America were the main focus of the article. That article was...

One of the jobs of a trade magazine is to take the pulse of its industry. Special Events Magazine should give its readers perspective on their profession. If we're doing our job, our readers will get some sense of the bigger picture, a sense of...

It's one thing for a party rental operation to be busy. It's another thing to be busy making money...

New York-based event company Paint the Town Red has added Webcasting to its in-house services in response to a cutback in business travel. Company president Howard Givner speculated that “some of [the cutback] is economically motivated, some is...

Helping guests feel secure at special events is vital today, and the larger the crowd, the better security needs to be...