Almost three quarters of insurance companies have access to the Internet, according to a recent Internet Usage Survey conducted by the Life Communicators Association (LCA). Of the 135 respondents to the survey, 72 percent said their companies have...

Beach Olympics are for sissies. How about the real thing? The Winter Olympic Challenge Program in Lake Placid, NY opens up the venues of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics, offering even novice winter athletes a chance to try bobsledding, luge...

* April 11, New England Meetings Industry Conference & Exposition (NEMICE), World Trade Center Boston. Call Gary Adams at (508) 683-8812...

Change is still the topic of the day in corporate America-in the insurance industry as much as anywhere. Faced with new and increasing competition, insurers that don't ride the waves of change may find themselves dead in the water...

Flying on El Al's new 747-400s, with personal viewing screens even in coach, the 11-hour flight to Tel Aviv from New York is comfortable. Ask your El Al representative to provide you with copies of their engagingly written information booklet to...

Are you a chummy dealmaker like Captain Kirk or a logical administrator like First Officer Spock? (Non-Trekkies, stay with us for a minute.) Do you make meeting buying decisions based on relationships, on how you feel about the job a particular...

* Sports Travel Services, Inc., has released Version 3.1 of its PC-based STS Resort EXPRESS-Business Planning Edition software. Planners can now select properties by Mobil Travel Guide ratings, as well as the other national awards featured in...

With little on-the-scene fan-fare but a fair amount of pre-meeting lobbying, delegates at the Convention Liaison Council (CLC) approved a major restructuring of the organization at its November meeting in Fort Worth, TX...

If you're like most of the readers who responded to the 1996 Insurance Conference Planner Salary and Practices Survey, you received a raise last year, your department has not been downsized in the past 24 months, and you have a solid ten years of...

They came bearing clubs. Twenty-one meeting planners, along with their guests, relaxed in the VIP lounge at Aruba's Queen Beatrix International Airport while golf bag after golf bag wended its way through customs. Their ultimate destination: the...