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...

Pricing ICP: How is the hotel seller's market affecting conference centers...

Burlington Air Express Winners Get Their Day In Hollywood "Give winners the full glamour treatment! Take them to Paramount Studios where they can write and star in a series of zany commercials." ...

Concerned about subjecting your attendees to crowds of angry protesters outside hotels? Hoteliers may be unlikely to inform you of labor problems, but now you can access information from union activists via the Internet. The California Travel...

MasterCard's Trade Show at Sea Combine a 26-booth trade show at sea with a little smart-card wizardry, and what do you have? A memorable full-ship charter that adroitly combined business with pleasure...