It could already boast that it was the largest city in terms of total area in the contiguous United States. Now Jacksonville, Fla., can add another feather to its cap: Most Affordable Meeting City. The northeast Florida city earned the top spot in...
CMI recently held its annual Golden Links Advisory Board meeting at Bonnet Creek Country Club, Walt Disney World, Florida. The meeting focused on the effect of the economy on golf events, as well as on CMI's new Golden Links Best of Corporate Golf...
GLOBAL UNCERTAINTY may have some incentive planners waiting for the other shoe to drop, but the need to get agents fired up means international destinations are still important. “Obviously we look at the safety issues,” says Lynn Averill, director...
TWO HOTEL COMPANIES have taken a radical step to spur bookings in an uncertain economy: Eliminate risk for their meeting clients. In early February, InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Atlanta, announced that contracts signed in February, March...
“I believe that good companies talk about learning and train when times are good. Great companies have a value system that stresses everyone is learning and they train all the time,” says Mike Fahner, vice president, sales and marketing, Aramark...
The biggest merger of technology giants in history, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, made a lot of noise last spring. So it follows that the new HP's four-day Americas Field Conference — the first meeting of the now 6,000-member-strong combined sales...