Get ready to factor in a new charge on guest folios at some resorts: the daily service fee. While it may sound like one more aspect of the seller's market squeeze, resort staffers say they instituted the fees to help, not hurt...
Indira Sukirno has been promoted to executive director for the Jakarta (Indonesia) Convention Bureau. She had been deputy to the former consulting executive director...
The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings will be held in Vancouver from November 18 to 26. And Meeting Professionals International (MPI) returns to Vancouver for its Professional Education Conference in January 1999. New developments...
Elegant Vienna is in many ways like Paris at a slower pace. The city was the capital of the Hapsburg Empire for more than six centuries, and many splendid royal residences and official buildings remain. Just when you think you've seen the room...
Corporate use of incentives in 1997 mirrors the country's upward economic trend. Thirty-six percent of Corporate Meetings & Incentives readers will spend more on incentive travel this year than they did last year, and nearly one quarter will...
I've rebuilt this hotel three times," says James Costello, architect and builder of the 290-room Renaissance Grand Beach Resort, St. Thomas, USVI. "I hope this time is the charm." With 204 low-rise rooms set into a hillside above the bay, the new...
George Perkins is convinced that the insurance industry's incen- tive vehicle needs fixing, and for the past couple of years, he's been tinkering under the hood...
In June, the Society of Corporate Meeting Professionals had one of its most successful Spring Conferences ever. Our theme, "Hands On Quality," came to life in every session and event during our four-day meeting in Marina del Rey, CA...
There's a haunting sense of place in South Africa that is entirely different from the West, but with a modern and smooth-running tourism infrastructure. It's also more accessible than ever before, since South African Airways (SAA) added an...