THIRD AUCTION SITE LAUNCHED A pril saw the launch of a third Internet site giving meeting planners a way to put their events up for bid: MpBid.com (www.mpbid.com) has joined EventSource.com and StarCite.com in offering an auction service...
The Soaring Eagle is open 24 hours a day. The fine concierge staff, along with the substantial meeting and banquet facilities, will make any size meeting both memorable and pleasurable...
How many times have you wished that certain people would just behave so you could run more effective and efficient meetings? The way to enlist people's best behavior is to get all participants to agree on the ground rules...
You've heard it a million times: 80 percent of your business comes from 20 percent of your customers. Planners can say it another way: 20 percent of hoteliers you deal with are really good at what they do. Is that about right? I believe the same...
In May 1999, all 1,200 employees of Avon, Mass.based Jordan's Furniture flew to Bermuda for a one-day beach bash that made headlines across the country (including in our magazine). They're still talking about it a year later...
GOING PLACES * International Conference Resorts of Colorado Springs, Colo., announced that Tiburon Capital, LLC, of San Francisco, acquired the Ocean Place Conference Resort in Long Branch, N.J., from Olympus Real Estate Corporation of Dallas...