This year’s Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association (ORLA) annual conference represents the culmination (and celebration) of months of hard work by the boards and members of both the former Oregon Lodging Association and the Oregon Restaurant Association to bring the two organizations together under a single common roof. While the number of restaurant members greatly exceed… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: September 2010
I’m back . . .
Posted in UpdateFor those of you that didn’t know, Sunday marked the end of a 10-week sabbatical that took my wife and me and our three small boys (ages 5, 7 and 9) first to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons for nearly 3 weeks and then to Western Europe for the month of August. What a summer break –… Continue Reading
Where Do We Go From Here? Event Contracting in the New Norm
Posted in Group Sales and EventsGreg and I were fortunate enough to be asked to present at this year’s Northwest Chapter of PCMA and MPIWSC’s 9th Annual Meetings Industry Summit: The New Norm at The Conference Center here in Seattle. For those of our excellent attendees who asked so many good questions both during and after the session and who requested… Continue Reading