By ISSA and R.V. Baugus More than 140 facilities are closing 2020 with an impressive new accreditation. Sonoma Country Day School in Santa Rosa, Calif. and athletic club F45 Training the Grove at Wesley Chapel in Wesley Chapel, Fla., are among the first of their kind to achieve GBAC S

(Editor’s Note: IAVM Chair Rip Rippetoe, CVE, was interviewed for the December Member Spotlight by the California Travel Association. We both congratulate Rip and thank him for his story as well as his promotion of IAVM and the role it plays throughout the public assembly venue

By ISSA and R.V. Baugus More than 100 new facilities have achieved the gold standard for prepared facilities: GBAC STAR facility accreditation from the Global Biorisk Advisory Council; (GBAC), a Division of ISSA. A number of IAVM member venues are new to the list, which are now recogn

By R.V. Baugus IAVM President and CEO Brad Mayne, CVE, took part in a panel at the Events Industry Council’s EIC Advance virtual event that ran from November 18-20. The focus was on advocacy and advancing the event industry, which will be a major catalyst to global economic reco

By R.V. Baugus Hear about the big news this week? Gotcha! No, we are not talking about the presidential election, although Lord knows it has been battered and filleted every which way since Tuesday. Instead, we are talking about something that is so under the radar it could not be loc