Flying into Shannon International Airport, visitors look down on a patchwork quilt in countless shades of green. The Shannon Region's County Clare in the west of Ireland has a wild, expansive landscape dotted with castles, craggy cliffs, and...
Beach Olympics are for sissies. How about the real thing? The Winter Olympic Challenge Program in Lake Placid, NY opens up the venues of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics, offering even novice winter athletes a chance to try bobsledding, luge...
Change is still the topic of the day in corporate America-in the insurance industry as much as anywhere. Faced with new and increasing competition, insurers that don't ride the waves of change may find themselves dead in the water...
Are you a chummy dealmaker like Captain Kirk or a logical administrator like First Officer Spock? (Non-Trekkies, stay with us for a minute.) Do you make meeting buying decisions based on relationships, on how you feel about the job a particular...
Welcome baskets and pillow gifts are time-honored ways of showing your group their presence is appreciated. Locally made goods are an especially suitable way to extend any meeting's Hawaiian theme...
With little on-the-scene fan-fare but a fair amount of pre-meeting lobbying, delegates at the Convention Liaison Council (CLC) approved a major restructuring of the organization at its November meeting in Fort Worth, TX...
If you're like most of the readers who responded to the 1996 Insurance Conference Planner Salary and Practices Survey, you received a raise last year, your department has not been downsized in the past 24 months, and you have a solid ten years of...
Another speaker, James B. Dittman, CITE, of Dittman Incentive Marketing in Edison, NJ, claimed that today's companies ask not whether to build beach Olympics into an incentive program, but whether to hold the incentive travel program at all...