It's not a trend anymore; it's an established fact. Women are playing golf for its business and networking benefits, realizing what their male colleagues have long known--that spending four hours on the golf course is an unparalleled way to build...
The inaugural Krisam Resorts Insurance Advisory Board brought together a small group of meeting planners and hoteliers at the end of May for a frank discussion of planning and negotiation issues. "Our business is relationships," says Lil Hanson...
Obtaining travel documents for an international meeting can challenge even seasoned travelers. Depending on the destination, for example, meeting attendees and speakers may need to apply for visas several months in advance of the conference. And...
The largest-ever European Incentive & Business Travel & Meetings Exhibition took place in Geneva, Switzerland, May 12 to 14, with 2,400 exhibitors and 7,500 attendees from 108 countries...
Value-Added Tax (VAT) is called different names in countries around the world. For example, the acronym is GST in Canada, MOMS in Sweden, MwST in Germany, TVA in France, and BTW in the Netherlands. Essentially these acronyms all refer to the same...
Prepare Yourself 1.Perhaps the very best place to start your familiarization with a country that you are considering as a meeting or incentive site is the Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. Contact the DOC, Desk Officer, [Specific Country]...
Incentive itineraries often include an annual golf tournament. But there are other ways to put golf on the schedule, many of them geared specifically toward women...
The Midwest site file in the March/April 1998 issue of ICP should have included this information: Lisle, Ill. offers 1,471 guest rooms 25 miles west of Chicago, between O'Hare and Midway airports...
Selected by tourism officials as the ideal Mexican resort location nearly three decades ago, Cancun has developed into a five-star city with a growing number of convention hotels, group facilities, and a world-class convention center...