Meeting Candidate Network, a New York City-based executive search firm, has added a division to fill incentive travel planning positions within corporations and incentive travel firms. The division will target openings for incentive department...

MALAYSIA In Malaysia, steamy jungles and white beaches coexist alongside glass-and-steel skyscrapers and ultramodern shopping malls. Kuala Lumpur, the capital, is the starting point for most corporate groups. Established in 1857 as a tin-mining...

Incentive travel tops the list when it comes to ways of rewarding employees, according to the 1996 ECS Survey of Sales & Marketing Personnel Compensation. Almost three quarters of the 921 respondents to the survey said they reward employees...

If you've seen one crystal-chandeliered ballroom, you've seen them all. So how's a meeting hotel to distinguish itself these days...

Forget the celebrity speaker: Corporations would rather pay for industry insights than name recognition, says a new survey commissioned by Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and the National Speakers Association (NSA)...

Gary Pugatch has joined Williams Hospitality Group of San Juan, PR, as vice president of sales and marketing. Pugatch, who will be based in Miami, had been area director of sales and marketing for the Westins of New England. Williams Hospitality...

Visa-less travel to Australia from the U.S. is in the works, according to the Australian Tourist Commission. The Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) will replace the current visa procedures for travel to Australia by the end of this year, officials...

Tips for Working With Printers Your hotel, conference, or convention center arrangements are complete and your meeting dates are set. Now you want your premeeting publicity and meeting brochures to be printed correctly, have a sharp, first-class...

Two hotel chains-Sonesta Hotels & Resorts and ITT Sheraton-recently revamped their employee training programs...

PeopleSoft-and 7,000 of its Closest Friends Months after a PeopleSoft annual user conference is over, the halls and offices at the Pleasanton, CA-based software company are still buzzing about it. And long before that din is quieted, product and...