NEWS AND NOTES FOR THE MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS INDUSTRY

Motorin’ Renovation, renaissance, and rebirth in Detroit. For more, see p. 26.

The Sequester, the GSA Effect, and Government Meetings

Western Regions Conference, government meetings remain under intense scrutiny from Congress and the media. And as of press time, the sequester was leading to cuts and cancellations for government meetings and travel. You might say that government meeting professionals are confronting a challenging landscape. The latest developments:

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t might be time to formally, permanently retire the AIG Effect and officially proclaim the GSA Effect. A year after the controversy first broke over extravagant spending on the General Services Administration’s 2010

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ON THE WEB Watch the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s “The Road Less Traveled” hearing at convn .org/gsa-oversight.