Say "Orlando," and what comes to mind? Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney World, MGM Studios, Universal Studios, Sea World, restaurants, shopping, golf, tennis, professional sports...
* Royal Caribbean International has sealed its merger deal with Celebrity Cruises. The $1.3 billion transaction is the largest in cruise-line history. The new company has a combined fleet of 17 ships that sail itineraries in Alaska, the Bahamas...
American Airlines has renewed its focus on the insurance market, naming a national sales manager--Dennis Tucker--to the industry, and reemphasizing its First Call program for group and meeting travel...
American Airlines has renewed its focus on the insurance market, naming a national sales manager--Dennis Tucker--to the industry, and reemphasizing its First Call program for group and meeting travel...
Convention Bureaus R.J. (Jim) Henderson has been promoted to vice president of sales and marketing at the Anchorage (AK) Convention & Visitors Bureau. He had been director of convention sales...
* Don Jaeger has been named president of the Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau. He had been director of marketing for the Oklahoma City Convention & Visitors Bureau. Jaeger, who serves on the board of directors of the Religious...
Stuck at the bottom of the customer-satisfaction barrel last year, Continental Airlines has done what no airline in the annual J.D. Power/Frequent Flyer Customer Satisfaction survey has ever done: The carrier jumped from last to first in a single...
AMERICAN HAWAII CRUISES Contact: Lori Purcell, vice president, field sales, (800) 933-9933, fax: (800) 933-4904 ...
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...
LEON, MEXICO North American conference organizers and meeting planners got burned when the Mexican peso suddenly plunged in 1995. "We had to cancel an exhibition," says a planner for a mid-sized international association based in Virginia. "We had...