Last weeks Headlines (latest news on http://www.conworld.net):

Global

• Intercontinental Hotels Group To Co-Sponsor International CMP Manual
  Friday, March 18, 2005
  The Convention Industry Council announced that InterContinental Hotels Group has...

Europe

• ITMA & CIPS To Run Event Management Seminar
  Friday, March 18, 2005
  The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) is producing, in Association...

• Spectra UK Expands Management Team
  Friday, March 18, 2005
  SPECTRA announced the appointment of Jeremy Brown to its team as Director of...

• Penelope, Viscountess Cobham Appointed As VisitBritain's Deputy Chair
  Friday, March 18, 2005
  VisitBritain, the authority for tourism in Britain, today announced the appointment of Penelope, Viscountess Cobham, as deputy...

• Congress Destination Vienna Posts New Records
  Friday, March 18, 2005
  The Vienna conference tourism industry set a new record for the second year in a row...

North America

• PCMA Legal Seminar Series Launches April 5
  Friday, March 18, 2005
  PCMA LegalAdvantage Series Offers Full-Day Programs On Vendor Contracts and Intellectual...

• Conferon Welcomes Two Account Execs to St. Louis Office
  Friday, March 18, 2005
  Conferon announced the addition of two new account executives to the St. Louis...

Convention bureau cuts staff, downtown center - The Greater Cincinnati Convention and Visitors Bureau will jettison a third of its workers as part of a shake-up designed to free up $1.4 million for a new regional tourism group.

M&C to sell Hollywood's favourite hotel for $500m - The Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, which has hosted presidents, royalty, Hollywood celebrities and the Beatles, has been put up for sale by Millennium & Copthorne Hotels (M&C).

The Jumeirah Beach Hotel voted as 'Best Overseas Hotel' once again - The Jumeirah Beach Hotel was voted ‘Best Overseas Hotel’ by readers of Meetings & Incentive Travel, the UK’s leading magazine in the industry, during the magazine’s 2005 Industry Awards held in London

Short-Term Rate Hikes Push Mtgs. To Alternate Markets - Corporate meeting buyers have begun to move some of their events out of major cities and to secondary markets as competition for space heats up and room rates rise, according to an exclusive Meetings Monitor survey