INCENTIVE TRAVEL has made it into the mainstream press lately, with reports that luxury trips are back in full force as the result of a strengthening economy...
New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who has made a name for himself investigating the way in which financial services firms do business, is now taking on the insurance arm of the industry...
“As meeting planners, our job is to educate procurement people as to what [the guest experience] means.” Jeff Calmus, director, conference planning and event services, MetLife, Boston, echoed the sentiments of his fellow panelists during a...
Technology consultant Corbin Ball, CMP, has made a career out of connecting the dots for meeting professionals. His latest project is a report on the tech tools available to help companies with their strategic meeting management initiatives, such...
As we go to press, the Design Team is putting the final touches on this year's ICPA Annual Meeting with the theme, “Together we paddle as one.” I know it's a cliché, but we are all in the same boat in many ways. If you think about it, when we come...
WHEN A GROUP of about 20 planners plus their guests from all over the country boarded planes for a flight to St. Thomas, USVI, in September for Ritz-Carlton's annual Educational Insurance Planner Weekend, they didn't know that Tropical Storm...
The giant swan and dolphin statues remain at their posts atop the hotels; inside, though, some of the playful beach décor and color schemes have been refined. Taking a more upscale approach for its business and meeting clientele, this charming...
TRACEY SMITH, MANAGER of events programming at Dallas software company RIA Thomson, was forced to leave in the middle of Meeting Professionals International's ROI Summit to call her company brass about the opening session of an upcoming meeting...