More than half of the insurance companies responding to the Life Insurance Marketing Research Association (LIMRA) 1995 Convention Practices Survey said their incentive travel programs are based on a 12-month qualification period; the most common...

ALL meeting planners are faced with the challenge of determining whether to rent equipment on site, bring company-owned equipment, or purchase new equipment for a particular meeting. This can be a daunting task because it's technical and time...

Roger Tondeur was honored by the Society of Incentive & Travel Executives (SITE) as its 1996 Member of the Year. Tondeur, a 17-year veteran of the incentive and congress industry, is the general manager of MCI Travel in Geneva...

While attending the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) general assembly in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I discovered that many of the meeting challenges faced by U.S. companies are shared by our colleagues in Europe, Asia, and...

Twenty-four months, eight quarters, 730 days: Any way you look at it, a two-year qualification period is a long time to hold agents' attention. That was the challenge for MassMutual's Conference Planning department when it launched the promotional...

Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, which operates such upscale properties as The Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas and Little Dix Bay on Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands, will open its first resort in Mexico in February. Las Ventanas al Paraiso in...

New Hotels For Small Meetings In December, just in time for the ski season, the Pinnacle Resort at Whistler opened in Whistler, BC. The mountain destination's first "boutique" hotel, the Pinnacle has 84 suites, each with its own Jacuzzi tub...

In January, The Pointe Hilton Resort at Tapatio Cliffs in Phoenix will take the edge off the Arizona heat when it opens its three-and-a-half acre water experience. The $7.5 million project adds a 40-foot waterfall, two free-form pools, a 130-foot...

Another speaker, James B. Dittman, CITE, of Dittman Incentive Marketing in Edison, NJ, claimed that today's companies ask not whether to build beach Olympics into an incentive program, but whether to hold the incentive travel program at all...

T 4 p.m. on the day Linda Bourbonnie fully expected to be laid off-Friday the 13th, no less-she got called into the office of the president of marketing and told that she wasn't going anywhere...