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...

The Convention Liaison Council (CLC) has changed one of its summer CMP exam dates from July 26 to August 2, 1997. The exam will be held before the Meeting Professionals International 1997 World Education Congress in Baltimore. The other summer...

The Internet is bringing new meaning to the term site inspection. Just consider the experience of the Arlington (TX) Convention and Visitors Bureau, which recently landed the meeting of an organization whose planner visited the CVB's Web site...

ITT Sheraton added to its roster in November the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel in Vancouver, formerly the Wall Centre Hotel. The 428-room hotel is the anchor for the mixed use, twin-tower Wall Centre, which occupies a city block in Vancouver's...

Sonesta Beach Resort Bermuda Southshore Road Southampton, Bermuda Phone (441) 238-8122 Toll-free Reservations (800) SONESTA Fax (441) 238-1086 ...

Your laptop's data/fax modem card may work fine from Hartford to Honolulu, but you can expect compatibility problems when you take it outside the United States. A new product called ClipperCom, launched to address that problem, picked up the Byte...

Although overall occupancy rates for U.S. hotels will decrease slightly this year for the first time since 1991, the change will have little impact on the meeting business, says Dr. Bjorn Hanson, chairman of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.'s national...

For most of this century, tiny Lanai was known as Pineapple Island and was the private domain of the Dole Food Company, which used its 18,000 acres to lead the world in production of the sweet fruit. Dole still owns much of the island, but has...

With the dramatic increase in airfares in 1996, executives who plan meetings may be looking at the new year with less than great expectations. Yet many airline analysts expect fares to stabilize or decrease in 1997...

The Peabody Orlando 9801 International Drive Orlando, FL 32819 Phone (407) 352-4000 or (800) 42-DUCKS Fax (407) 351-3501 (Sales) ...