A meeting management firm recently acquired by United Airlines plans to go after new clients among the Fortune 500. Randy Hannon, president of the Premier Group of Rolling Meadows, IL, says United's ownership of the company "will open a lot of...
Hyatt Regency Kauai Resort & Spa 1571 Poipu Road Koloa, HI 96756 Phone (808) 742-1234 Fax (808) 742-6229 Director of Sales and Marketing Kelly Hoen Director of Conference Services Steven Pidgley ...
IT'S easy to become complacent with the routine. "We've always done our general sessions this way--it's the way our agents like it!" But we can almost always improve our sessions--often at little cost. And attendees will definitely notice the...
Don't call it a seller's market. Brian Quinn, national sales manager at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, prefers to call it "a time of parity and partnership." What does he mean? More than ever, he said, it's a time when planners and...
The city of Berlin is apparently one huge construction site as a massive reshaping is taking place to prepare for the transfer of the capital from Bonn to Berlin. There is so much construction that the city is actually packaging special interest...
It's rare to have more than one destination management company (DMC) handle the logistics of a familiarization trip. For Adams Business Media's Showcase Site Inspection in Costa Rica, nine DMCs worked together closely to help sponsor the four...
PlanSoft's site-selection and contact engine is up and running at www.plansoft.com. Membership is free to planners. In barely two months of operation, the PlanSoft site has registered more than 250 members, says Edward J. Tromczynski, PlanSoft...
JUST OPENED In May, Portland, OR's new Fifth Avenue Suites Hotel opens downtown with 82 guest rooms, 135 550-square-foot suites, and four grand suites. The property is being constructed in the 1912 Lipman Wolfe building, most recently a department...