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Report: Terror Risk Tops Safety Concerns for Business Travelers

Associations Now

and Europe could be driving these concerns, the report notes, even though fatalities from terror attacks have affected Americans only rarely since 2002. London, New York, and Paris as “safe” or “very safe,” even though each has experienced at least one terror attack since 2001.

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The Art of the Retirement Announcement

Associations Now

The two TV stars joined a growing list of New York celebrities to call it quits in a similar fashion: Before the 2013 Major League Baseball season, New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera announced it would be his last , and Mo’s teammate Derek Jeter did the same this year.

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Game Plan 2014: Seeing Around the Corners

Association Adviser

Yet our research shows that very few associations— just 1 percent of respondents to our 2013 association benchmarking study—”embrace advertiser input when setting their content and communications strategy.” “We’re willing to put resources—both staff and financial—into some of these new technologies to see how they work.