There's so much new AV technology coming into the market that sometimes the advancing technology itself seems to be the industry's driving force. New products seem to come out every day that are brighter, lighter, less distorted, faster, and...
Back in 1916, when the folks from Goodyear Tire built a small retreat near the company's Arizona cotton fields, this stretch of mountain-ringed valley outside of Phoenix was dominated by giant Saguaro cactuses and howling coyotes. After 1929, when...
THE WORD FROM METCON: BECOME "E-CENTRIC" "The Internet is painfully slow," acknowledged Arthur G. Esch, chief scientist, Professional Convention Management Association and chairman, Executive Services, Ltd. in Leonardtown, Md. But the "world wide...
The inaugural Krisam Resorts Insurance Advisory Board brought together a small group of meeting planners and hoteliers at the end of May for a frank discussion of planning and negotiation issues. "Our business is relationships," says Lil Hanson...
High-Tech Site Inspections A recent meeting in San Jose, Calif., demonstrated to me how much the high-tech demands of meetings have evolved. More than half of my group had notebook computers, and various Internet requests. At a first-class...
Daniel Oldenbury remembers the first time he heard about the Millennium bug. It was last March, and he was staring out his office window at two feet of snow, suddenly feeling a little numb. Until then, the marketing manager for Wilift Truck...
1998 Paragon Awards Corporate Meetings & Incentives announces the winners of its 1998 Paragon Awards. We have asked our readers to choose the hotels, resorts, and conference centers that did the best job of handling their meetings and...
Selected by tourism officials as the ideal resort location nearly three decades ago, Cancun has developed into a five-star city with a growing number of convention hotels, group facilities, and a world-class convention center...
An unprecedented construction boom has seized the city of Calgary, in the western province of Alberta. It's a boom fueled in part by plans to expand and renovate the city's aging convention center...
A Supersonic Incentive Take attendees to new heights on Air France's Concorde flights--destination not included. Air France recently introduced group Concorde flights with no destination, and hopes to sell these "flights to nowhere" as the...