An audit of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (WWCC) recently referenced data from the 2013 Convention Center Operating Expenses and Revenues Report published by VenueDataSource, the research department of the International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM). IAVM has close

Why not use your association’s expertise and resources to survey your customers, staff, or stakeholders for a fraction of the cost you would pay anywhere else? You have access to a research professional with 35 years of experience to design your questions. Why pay more for someone wit

We invest in what we think is important. In order to better understand what technology upgrades venue managers consider important enough to invest with their people and their cash, VenueDataSource surveyed more than 250 venues to identify the trends that are most common. The recently

A new episode of our monthly podcast, The Venue, will air this Friday, August 28, at 2 p.m. (CST). You can register at this link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/50090377894186342 Our guest host will be Jeremy Huelsing, director of finance at Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Mis

Doors open in 15 minutes. Which of your staff are in position, in route, or not even in the building yet? What percentage of staff in position is acceptable to proceed with, and how would you verify this in real-time—or after your event if the need arose? One of the goals of Big Data: