The Insurance Conference Planners Association (ICPA) Forum, held in June at the Renaissance Chicago, provided a stage for the first complete unveiling of the nearly released Ajenis software product and the PlanSoft Network, designed to...
* Do your agents know variable products? In a recent issue of National Underwriter, columnist and Chatham, MA­p;based attorney Hill Gallagher predicted the next life insurance scandal will come about because of how variable-life products...
Four months after its opening, the National Trade Centre in Toronto has booked 14 new events, representing $1.1 million in confirmed new business. With more than one million square feet of exhibit space, the facility is positioned as North America...
Florida's West Coast has a well-deserved reputation for music and the arts, with symphonies, ballets, and big-name concerts in Tampa, Sarasota, and Naples. Museums such as the Salvador Dali Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Florida...
Meeting planners take note: the adventure travel industry has emerged from an awkward adolescence, marked by years of identity crises and unregulated growth. Now it's on the way to a healthy adulthood, with regulations in place for land use and...
Good news for next year's meeting budget: Travel costs are expected to rise only 4.7 percent over this year, according to a recent report from Runzheimer International. The Rochester, WI-based management consulting firm came up with the figure...
Mary Charles & Associates (MC&A), a Honolulu-based destination management company, has entered a joint venture with Convention Management Resources, a housing, registration, and travel services company based in San Francisco...
The creativity and imagination that goes into planning a memorable meeting often takes a break when it comes time for coffee. It shouldn't, says G. Eugene Wigger, whose book Themes, Dreams & Schemes offers planners a wealth of menu and theme...
What's great about PlanSoft's Ajenis software is not that you can quickly and easily create documents like meeting resumes and banquet event orders on your computer. It's that the documents you create can be sent back and forth electronically...
Virtual meetings are hot. According to the International Teleconferencing Association (ITCA), the North American teleconferencing industry has grown an average of 30 percent a year since 1993. Henry Grove, president of the Philadelphia-based group...