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Reed Exhibitions Renews Contract with CompuSystems
CompuSystems has renewed its contract with Reed Exhibitions through 2019. CompuSystems has been providing full-service registration for Reed for the past 33 years. “We are excited to continue our long-running partnership with Reed Exhibitions,” says Chris Williams,...
etouches Announces Rebrand to Aventri
Pictured L-R: Aventri CEO Oni Chukwu and CMO Chalva Tchkotoua. etouches, a leading global provider of innovative event management software solutions, has rebranded to Aventri. Since 2008, etouches has provided event management and venue sourcing solutions to a broad...
PCMA Launches New Crisis Communications Guide
The Professional Convention Management Association has launched a new Crisis Communications Guide for business event strategists on how to confidently handle communications around a crisis situation. Based on a 15 point tool kit, the Guide should be an essential aide...
American Association for Respiratory Care Selects CDS as Registration Partner
Convention Data Services (CDS) was selected by the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) to provide registration and lead management for the association’s annual meeting, AARC Congress, which is the largest and most comprehensive respiratory care meeting in...
EDPA Foundation Names 10 Scholarship Recipients
The EDPA Foundation Scholarship Committee is proud to announce that 10 scholarship recipients have been named in 2018. This is the highest number of scholarships awarded in a single year since the program began 16 years ago. The EDPA Foundation Scholarship Fund was...
Features
Corporate Profile: Prism Lighting: A Pool Skimmer and His Dream
Proof That Nice Guys Don’t Always Finish Last by Heather Gillis Growing up in downtown Toronto in the mid-Sixties, Charlie Simpson (pictured above) lived down the street from a cobbler shop. In that shop’s window was a sign handmade by the owner that said, “I’m a nice...
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International Man: Exhibiting Abroad
Tips for Adapting Your U.S. Exhibiting Strategies to the International Stage by Larry Kulchawik The biggest mistake that U.S. companies make when taking their U.S. trade show experiences abroad is assuming that their formula for success in the U.S. will work the same...
Photo Poll: ECN Visits The Show Floor to Ask…
What do you like best about working I&D? ECN visited InfoComm at the Las Vegas Convention Center just before the closing bell to ask the I&D fellows who were checking in to dismantle the booths an easy question…What do you like best about working I&D? Ken Hoskin,...
Progress and Challenges Still for Women In Exhibit Design
Pictured: Exhibition and Event Association of Australasia (EEAA) Chief Executive Joyce DiMascio by Cynthya Porter The adage that it’s a man’s world is possibly nowhere more true than in the exhibition universe, where, despite an abundance of women in the industry,...
Convention Center Spotlight: Austin
More Expansion for The Neal Kocurek Memorial Austin Convention Center? by Jeanne Brei Home of the Texas Rollergirls, former home to the Austin Toros basketball team (until their move to the Cedar Park Center) and the primary "home base" for the internationally...
As the Saw Turns: Pick the Right Wall
Setting Priorities to Balance Work and Personal Life by Jim Obermeyer Hindsight can be a wonderful thing…or a torturous thing, depending on what you are looking back on. When you are looking back on a very long career in the same industry, there’s bound to be a few...
People
LeAnn Davis Named a Director of Sales at Disney World
The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., has named LeAnn Davis as a new director of sales. Davis, in conjunction with director of sales Aaron Weegar, will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day efforts of the resort’s group sales...
Centerplate Promotes Diana Evans and Kay Towner
Centerplate, hospitality partner to North America's premier sports stadiums, convention centers and entertainment venues, has promoted Diana Evans and Kay Towner to senior executive roles at the company. The realignment follows the integration of Centerplate with the...
ION Exhibits Grows Exhibit Design Team
Pictured L-R: Angie Bertelsman and Tricia Fox. Ion Exhibits has grown the exhibit design team with the addition of two new employees: Angie Bertelsman as senior exhibit designer and Tricia Fox as graphic designer. Bertelsman has been designing and branding...
CDS Announces Strategic Changes to Sales Staff
Pictured L-R: David Lawton, Mike Dickinson and Amanda Gustafson. Convention Data Services (CDS) is excited to announce strategic changes to its national sales organization effective immediately. CDS is increasing its sales presence in two of the major tradeshow...
David Walens Appointed Chair of the EDPA Foundation
The Experiential Designers & Producers Association Foundation has again named David Walens as chair of the foundation. Walens succeeds Ray Montague, who served in this position for two years. Walens is president of Exploring, Inc., the parent of several companies in...
Sho-Link Inc. Announces New Orlando Asst. Mgr.
Sho-Link Inc., a premier installation and dismantle service company, has named Steve Dubois as Orlando assistant manager. This promotion demonstrates Sho-Link’s continued commitment to employee pride and recognition. Dubois started working part time with Sho-Link in...
World
The First World Food Tourism Conference in China in Sept.
Europe Asia Global Link Exhibitions (EAGLE), a joint-venture of the Italian Exhibition Group (IEG) and VNU Exhibitions Asia, and Discoverymice have formed an alliance for the organization of the first World Conference on food tourism to be held in China, in Chengdu,...
Dubai To Host World Congress Of Gastroenterology In 2021
Dubai has been selected as the host city for World Gastroenterology Organization’s biennial World Congress of Gastroenterology which is set to take place from Dec. 12-15, 2021 (WCOG-2021) at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. The Congress will...
First Penang International Travel Exchange to be Held Sept. 4-8
The Penang Convention & Exhibition Bureau (PCEB) announced its latest business events product–the Penang International Travel Exchange (PITE), an initiative to further promote Penang, Malaysia, as a business events destination. PITE is a homegrown travel exchange that...
SCB Accelerates Growth with Launch of New Office
SCB Chairman Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Dr. Muhammad Leo Toyad (third from left) sounding the ceremonial gong with the Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Sarawak, Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah (sixth from left), to formally officiate the launching of SCB’s...
“Peace” to Replace “Hallyu” as Korean Tourism Theme
Even in the tourism field, a new path for peace between North and South Korea has opened. On July 11, the Seoul Tourism Organization (STO) held the "2018 Symposium for the Revitalization of Seoul-Inter-Korean Peace Tourism" at the Seoul Center for Architecture &...
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