Conventions

Arizona's been through economic boycotts before. But the controversy over the state's new immigration law is already having an impact on Arizona's tourism industry.

More companies are meeting virtually since the recession and it is affecting meeting planners, speakers and conference centers. Hardest hit are the two meccas for conferences; Orlando and Las Vegas. Las Vegas has seen 402 conventions and meetings canceled from October to mid-March at a...

Las Vegas, where "What happens here stays here," is trying to market itself as a serious destination as more companies -- such as banks receiving federal bailouts -- have canceled meetings and conventions. A full-page ad in a back page of the March 23 and 30 BusinessWeek magazine describes how a...

Hoteliers are tired of being beaten up because of the foibles of Wall Street. Every week or so, there seems to be another revelation about a bank that received billions in government aid doing something stupid like sponsoring a celebrity-laden golf tournament (Northern Trust Corp. (NTRS)), almost...

Fargo, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Des Moines -- your 15 minutes of fame among the convention crowd may be coming.In the past two weeks, some major corporations have canceled conventions to Las Vegas, not because of the costs but of the image it presents in a budget-conscious, times-are-hard country,...

It's unusual for an airport to think of itself as anything more than a way station. We have to visit them but we don't really want to, and consequently, most of them are resolutely run by bored civic authorities and industrial management agencies. Head to the web site of your local runway, and you...