This year’s deadly flu stories may have faded from the headlines, but spread of the flu is still a concern throughout most of the country.

Nicole Considine has been appointed director of sales and marketing for Delta Hotels - Marriott Dallas Allen & Watters Creek Convention Center, a Benchmark Resorts & Hotels property currently under construction.

Tilman J. Fertitta's ultra-luxe Post Oak Hotel at Uptown opened in Houston.

When 35-year meeting planning veteran Sandy Biback retired she found out her work was not finished. But instead of continuing to be tasked with the myriad responsibilities of managing meetings and her Toronto-based independent meeting planning business, she set out to help some of the most vulnerable, and often forgotten, members of our society: victims of human trafficking.