If you ask winners of the Gala Awards-given annually by Special Events Magazine at The Special Event trade show-how it feels, many will tell you it's when they knew they had "arrived" in the event industry...
Now Read This Judy Allen's book "Event Planning: The Ultimate Guide to Successful Meetings, Corporate Events, Fundraising Galas, Confer-ences, Conventions, Incentives and Other Special Events" offers advice on choosing the best venue; preparing...
Hotels Profit From Online Bookings Hotel companies that aren't riding the Internet wave of online booking could lose business to hotels that do offer the service...
Michael McCafferty is the new vice president and general manager of San Diego-based event production company Premier Productions International. Call 858/451-1814. Carly Johnstone has been promoted from executive assistant to event manager of MVKA...
Clean, pared-down design in black and white was a winner at the Sixth Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Held in March at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, the SAG Awards drew a crowd of 1,064 profes-sional performers...
A series of grand openings for a superstore chain included a fashion show at each of its 100 new locations. For each show, Richard Taylor-technical director and event specialist for Best of the Best, a special event rental and prop company based...
For the national sales meeting of one of his clients-a major pharmaceutical company-event producer Harith Wickrema of Oreland, Pa.-based Harith Productions created a five-day event at Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas, where each session topped the...
