The Southwest continues to bloom with new developments aimed squarely at the meetings and conventions market. Leading the pack, not surprisingly, is Las Vegas. The city redefined itself as much more than a gaming destination with the opening last...
It was 1994, and Gary Fisher was presiding over an elegant dinner in Kalamazoo, Mich. He'd recently taken charge of the Farmers Group of Insurance Companies' Southwest Michigan sales district, and he was meeting the region's 22 multi-line...
"DOWN UNDER" MOVES UP The Eighth AsiaPacific Incentives and Meetings Expo, at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre, Melbourne, Australia, was nearly triple the size of the original event, held in 1993. The first AIME had 200 exhibitors...
Downtowns lack lazy beaches, azure surf, and emerald golf courses, the very things many insurance incentive qualifiers pine for. So why bypass a resort for a city--and a non-Sunbelt city at that? The companies below had their reasons. And those...
ROCKRESORTS RESURRECTED Rockresorts, the very upscale hotel brand created by Laurence Rockefeller in the 1960s, has been resurrected, at least in name and spirit. The new Rockresorts number four: Cheeca Lodge in Islamorada in the Florida Keys; the...
WHO WANTS TO CANCEL A SPEAKER CONTRACT? In early February, one of the lesser-known speakers in the portfolio of Speak Inc., a speakers bureau in San Diego, Calif., called the bureau to predict that his star was about to rise...
"Another day, another dot-com press conference." So Tom Flanagan quipped in April at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York. Flanagan, vice president of marketing for Philadelphia-based StarCite (www.starcite.com), a fast-evolving meeting Web...