The $1.1 million BORGATA HOTEL CASINO AND SPA opened in July in Atlantic City. The hotel's 43-floor tower houses 2,002 guest rooms, 70,000 square feet of meeting space, 11 restaurants, and a 50,000-square-foot spa. It is the largest hotel (and...
The World Tourism Organization says it's inevitable: China will become the world's No. 1 travel destination by 2020. With SARS in check and a reputation as a safe destination, China is back in the economic forefront. According to an article in The...
THIS YEAR, MARKETSHARE FINANCIAL INC. OF INDIANAPOLIS WILL HOLD its annual incentive meeting at the Trump Sonesta Resort in Miami Beach. ECA Marketing Inc. of Eden Prairie, Minn., will be sending its top producers on a seven-day Caribbean cruise...
AS I DISCOVERED at The Caves in Negril, Jamaica, not every all-inclusive hotel is a mega-playground. Rather, the Caves is a jewel-box retreat for top-tier incentive winners who have been, there, done that — and want to experience the kind of laid...
According to the 2004 P&L Forecast recently published by the Hospitality Research Group of PKF Consulting, hotels in the United States will see profitability increase an average of 5.6 percent this year after three years of decline...
If you're looking for a meeting icebreaker, check out this idea from Leapfrog Innovations. Have everyone write on an index card a question that would be fun to ask, such as, “If you were stuck in a vat of ice cream and had to eat your way out...
The question of how to hold an environmentally friendly meeting is one that more and more planners are grappling with. For answers, they can now turn to a report released in April from the Convention Industry Council...
Meeting Professionals International signed a deal with Teamware Inc. March 1, clearing the way for an early June launch of its online community, Meeting Industry eXchange. MPI's members-only networking site will offer a number of communication...
You don't have to take your incentive winners all the way to Africa for a safari experience — just to Central Florida. At Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom, the new Wayana Safari Experience lets guests enter the animal reserve and get close-up...
DESPITE THE ONGOING popularity of cruises — the original all-inclusive travel experience — corporate planners have historically been slow to embrace their land-based brethren, the all-inclusive resort. That seems to be changing...