If you book celebrity speakers, make sure you know what they're planning to say to your audience. That's one lesson attendees took home from the Meeting Professionals International Professional Education Conference, held in New Orleans in January...
Not that dealers buy directly into Five Star, but participation can cost them tens of thousands of dollars a year. And unlike other incentive programs, DaimlerChrysler has chosen to concentrate rewards for qualifiers on the business — not on the...
The first time I heard Greg Reid speak was during an ambitious but far too long program sponsored by Meeting Professionals International during the Motivation Show this past October (which in itself is a tiring event). I was feeling a little weary...
Once you weather the short, white-knuckle flight from St. Maarten to St. Barthèlemy — the small, chartered plane slipping through a narrow gap between two mountains to ease itself onto the runway, stopping just short of the narrow beach dotted...
Business airfares in the U.S. jumped 12 percent in 2000, according to the American Express Business Travel Monitor, released at the end of January. This was double the rate of increase in both 1999 and 1998...
The 722-room Loews New York has become the Metropolitan Hotel, after the first phase of a $17 million restoration that brought back the hotel's 1961 Miami Beach — style look and feel. By the end of April, 260 business class rooms will have been...