The sun's not up at 5:30 a.m., but golf-ers are. On a brisk Orlando morning early last December, incentive travel suppliers and clients boarded buses in the morning twilight at Disney's Boardwalk Resort, heading off for the first full day of the...

Dallas-based Patriot American Hospitality has acquired Carefree Resorts for $210 million. Patriot American owns more than 40 upscale hotels; Phoenix-based Carefree is made up of five exclusive resorts: The Boulders in Carefree, AZ; The Peaks...

THE demise of the slide show has been forecast for more than a decade, yet it remains one of the most effective presentation mediums in the meetings industry. I suspect it will be for a long time to come. Slides are cost-effective to create and...

What's good enough for the Internal Revenue Service is good enough for New York State, or so it seems from the content of a late December internal memorandum by the New York State Insurance Department's (NYID) now-departed Superintendent Edward...

IF you think attendees are risk-averse and litigious when it comes to themselves, wait until you see how protective they are of their kids. You may already know. There's been a marked increase in the number of meeting attendees bringing kids along...

For the folks at Providian Agency Group, it was hard to reconcile the messages: On the one hand its agent demographics are solidly Bible-belt conservative, yet since the mid-1980s, meeting evaluation forms that asked agents where they wanted to go...

Calgary is putting in a bid to host the 2005 World's Fair, banking on its success in hosting the 1988 Winter Olympics. The year 2005 has special significance, since it marks Alberta's 100th birthday...

Newport, RI, renowned as the summer home of the turn-of-the-century elite, continues to draw visitors to its historic mansions and yacht-filled harbor. In May, the town's 1909 Vanderbilt Hall becomes a 50-room "mansion house" hotel. The property...

The newly created American Society of Gay & Lesbian Meeting Planners (ASGLMP) will provide a networking forum for gay and lesbian planners as well as its "seal of approval" to gay-friendly destinations and meeting facilities, says Jim Luce...

In London's West End, The Savoy Group's stately Claridge's hotel added a suite of meeting rooms and a fitness center on its sixth floor. Combined, the four new meeting rooms accommodate 150 persons...