Archive: May 2010

This summer, military families can attend more than 600 museums across the country for free. [...] Read more

Editorial Director Christine born talks about why it’s reassuring to know we have friends in the general media keeping an eye on the meetings and travel industry. [...] Read more

Get transported back in time to the late Miocene period, millions of years before humans, at the Gray Fossil Site and Museum near Johnson City, Tennessee. [...] Read more

Callaway Gardens, an award-winning, family resort in Pine Mountain, Georgia, surrounds visitors with nature and educates them about it. [...] Read more

The Biltmore estate, built just before the turn of the 20th century, is still America’s largest home. [...] Read more

This year, 215 communities from Alabama are in the spotlight during the “Year of Small Towns and Downtowns.” [...] Read more

Chicago needed a break, and it got it last week as the Illinois General Assembly passed legislation to ease rules for exhibitors at McCormick Place, the city’s convention center. The bill came in response to the loss of a few high-profile and high-revenue association events that relocated to competing cities. [...] Read more

Travel and business disruptions caused by the Icelandic volcano eruption last month had at least one unanticipated impact: a notable rise in the interest in videoconferencing. [...] Read more

The travel website Expedia put together a list of the top hotels worldwide based on three criteria: value, customer reviews and expert opinions. The result is the Expedia Insiders’ Select List, an exhaustive resource of properties (more than 2,500 total) that can be searched by country, state or city. A few American hotels broke into the top 20, including Drury Inn Indianapolis at No. 3, Staybridge Suites Minneapolis-Bloomington at No. 6, EPIC Hotel in Miami [...] Read more

Readers of Las Vegas’ largest newspaper have named Angel Park Golf Club the best area golf course for the 13th consecutive year. More than 15,000 votes were cast in the Las Vegas Review-Journal reader’s poll, and the 36-hole Angel Park club topped the list. Arnold Palmer designed two of the club’s courses, and golfers can take advantage of night golfing on a 12-hole short course, natural-grass putting course and a practice tee area. “This award [...] Read more