The Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area saw 32.5 million total visitors in 2016, a 2.8 percent increase over 2015’s 31.6 million convention and leisure travel visitors, which is a new all-time record for the area. Meet Minneapolis, Convention and Visitors Association, announced t

The Facility Doctors is a new column in the pages of Facility Manager magazine co-edited by Dr. Kimberly Mahoney and Professor Gil Fried. The column appeared in the March/April issue and the next installment is in the May/June magazine. But we need your help, or more specifically, you

Tricia Gonyo, vice president of sales and marketing at VenuWorks, was nominated by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) as a candidate for its 2017 Man & Woman of the Year (MWOY) national campaign. Candidates of the MWOY campaign have 10 weeks from March 9 through May 20 to

First things first. Dr. Tamara Madensen did not advocate in her keynote opening speech at the Academy for Venue Safety & Security to engage in any unethical or illegal tactics when she talked about how stealing solutions helps in her work as the Director, Crowd Management Research

The Venue Safety & Security Committee has established a cyber working group available to answer any questions from IAVM members. As the blog below discusses, cybersecurity is one of the hot topics for 2017 as these types of attacks continue as legitimate threats. We urge anyone wi