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Review All Articles > April 30th 2008 - Vol 11, Issue 18 EACA NEWS
NRA Show 2008
Introduces new Green Initiatives. NRA along with GES Service Expositions, United
Service Companies, McCormick Place, and Allied Waste have joined
forces to introduce a targeted recycling program at this
year’s show.
The goal of the initiatives is to improve the show’s
ability to reduce, reuse, and recycle as much waste as possible
from the event, and to create a benchmark to measure our
effectiveness in keeping show waste out of landfills.
Exhibitors and EAC’s have an extremely
important role to play in our efforts to create a sustainable
show.
Show management is asking all EACs to support this effort, and
have released a detailed outline of the program
– the NRA Green
Initiative .
All EACA members, as well as the entire EAC community are asked
to support this program!
EACA 10th Anniversary Member
Directory. The EACA, in conjunction with
Exhibit City News, will be publishing a special edition of its
membership directory to commemorate its 10th anniversary in 2008.
This high quality publication will not only feature
our full list of members, it will also chronicle the significant
events that have taken place in our 10 year history.
Special features will include photographs and descriptions
of EACA events, Intrepid Award winners, Hall of Famers as well as
other notable achievements of the EAC community.
The member directory will be published in time for distribution
at this summer’s HCEA and TS2 events. Be sure
that your company is well represented in this exceptional
publication.
All members
receive a FREE Membership listing which includes:
Company name
Address
City State & Zip
Phone
Fax
Email
Please note that all EACA members are responsible to fax
or email your updated listing to Exhibit City News using the
attached Directory Form Fax to
702-309-8027 or email judyk@exhibitcitynews.com.. Unless you send NEW information your listing will
be the same as last year.
EACA
Calls for Intrepid Award / Hall of Fame Nominations
It’s that time of year
once again when the EACA is looking to its members for
nominations for the annual Intrepid Award, and for nominations
for its sixth class to be inducted into the EACA Hall of Fame.
Anyone interested in submitting a nomination can request a form
by emailing jimwurm@eaca.com.
Mark Your
Calendars – EACA Annual Meeting July
28-29. The EACA
will hold its 10th Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA in
conjunction with TS2 on July 28-29, 2008 at the Pennsylvania
Convention Center.
All EACA members are urged to mark this year’s event on
their calendar as we look to celebrate the milestone of our 10th
Anniversary in style!! More details to follow in
future issues of the Showfloor Buzz!
CHAPTER
NEWS
Atlanta Chapter
News
Get Out
of the Gutter to Benefit RSMGC
The SE Chapter of the EDPA is organizing its first ever
bowling event called “Get Out of the Gutter” to
benefit the Randy Smith Memorial Golf Classic.
Get Out of the Gutter will take place at 300 (2175 Savoy
St, Atlanta) on June 4, 2008 from 5pm to 8pm.
For more information on the 2008 Get Out of the Gutter
contact Sandra Braun at SBraun@nthdegree.com.
DC Chapter
News
Customer
Service Training Announcement
EACA will be
hosting first ever Customer Service Training in Washington DC
during the week of June 16.
More details about the Customer Service Training Program will be
available in future issues of the Showfloor Buzz.
Chicago
Chapter News
Customer
Service Training Announcement
EACA will be
hosting its next round of Customer Service Training at McCormick
Place on June 11, 12, and 13.
The EACA Customer Service Training Program in June will include
the premier of the Level 3 Customer Service training
course, along with the Level 1 and Level 2 courses. Additional information about the June
Customer Service Training can be found in the Training Overview
document. To register your
people for the June Customer Service Training in Chicago use the
June Registration form and the June Participants form to let us
know which session your people are attending.
INDUSTRY
NEWS
TSEA Names New Executive
Director <Tradeshow Week> Margit B.
Weisgal has been named executive director of the Trade Show
Exhibitors Assn. and current TSEA President Stephen Schuldenfrei
has announced his retirement. Weisgal has been with exhibitor
training and consulting firm Sextant Communications for almost 20
years and in 2007 received TSEA's Distinguished Service
Award.
ICCA Surveys Economic Impact on
Trade Shows. <Meeting
& Convention News> A survey conducted two weeks ago
by the International Congress & Convention Association
reveals that the global financial crisis is unlikely
to cause significant damage to the international meetings
industry.
Among the study's key findings:
•
Fewer
than 6 percent of those polled have suffered a significant
downturn in business as a result of the economy, and 60 percent
reported they have felt no impact at all
•
42
percent expect their firm's performance to be better in 2008 than
last year
•
12
percent of respondents plan to reduce their marketing budgets,
but more than three-quarters of those polled will not make any
such cuts.
•
Asked
what impact the current financial crisis will have on the
meetings industry in general, slightly more than half believe
there will be significant negative impact restricted to certain
regions
•
more
than one-third expect a significant short-term global impact, and
7 percent predict significant global impact will last longer than
18 months.
More than a quarter of ICCA's 850 member organizations responded
to the survey.
Airlines to pay more for bumping
passengers <Expo Web
News> The U.S. Department of Transportation has increased
the amount of money the airlines must pay passengers who are
involuntarily bumped from overbooked flights. The amount of
compensation is dependent upon the amount of time a passenger is
delayed in reaching his or her final destination.
Weak dollar propping up US
hospitality industry <eArtistotle Travel
Mole Newswire>
Why is the US hospitality sector of the economy remaining strong?
Perhaps in large part because of the weakening US dollar.
THOUGHT FOR
THE WEEK
More persons, on the whole,
are humbugged by believing nothing, than by believing too
much.
-- P.T. Barnum
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customer, the exhibitors, please forward it to the EACA @
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