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Years of Incentive Travel

Eight years before SITE was founded, a Salem, Mass. maker of vacuum cleaners and floor polishers whisked 400 dealers to Rome...to do things, presumably, as the Romans do. One of the first-ever group incentives, this week-long trip (at a 1965 cost of $500 per person) featured all the revelry and ribaldry typical of the earliest incentive programs.

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