"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...
Speakers bureaus do more than just send out glossy catalogs. A good one will learn as much as possible about your company, your meeting, your audience, and your budget in order to help you find a professional speaker who fits your needs. The aim...
Dromoland Castle recently opened its luxurious new Club Wing with 24 guest rooms and the stately Club Lounge. The addition caps a five-year refurbishment of the historic property. Located in Newmarket-on-Fergus, near Ireland's Shannon Airport, the...
Videos are great promotion tools for meetings, especially incentive programs. Here are some tips for creating on-time, on-budget, and on-target videos...
Catherine Wittke, CMP, Patricia Kerr, CMP, and their working team of 10 had a planning and a promotional challenge facing them when Manulife Financial's two-tiered incentive program for 1999 outgrew the two properties it was booked into. They had...
When Aid Association for Lutherans announced its 2000 President's Cabinet in Costa Rica, the destination attracted 100 more qualifiers than usual, and a record 50 percent booked post-trip excursions in the area. When Delta Life & Annuity...