Getting Started 1. Skip the phone tag and long-distance charges, and surf the Web. The major online service providers have travel forums with information about individual countries. Or, visit http://www.goeurope.com, a European travel Web site...

For the sixth time, a group of corporate (primarily insurance) meeting planners-all women-gathered at the Boca Raton (FL) Resort & Club in late summer. Hosted by Anne Erickson, the resort's director of insurance and incentive sales, the...

The Vail (CO) Cascade Hotel & Club completed a $2 million renovation at the end of 1996 that updated its lobby areas, ballrooms, and prefunction areas...

Spending on corporate group travel will grow by ten percent in 1997-for the third consecutive year-to nearly $80 million, according to the American Express 1997 Trends and Forecasts for the Business Travel Industry...

Let me describe the setting of the SITE (Society of Incentive & Travel Executives) International Conference, Vienna (Wien, Wien): impressive avenues; beautiful buildings with marble staircases leading to ornately decorated rooms with priceless...

BLIND COMMISSIONS EXPOSED: PANEL TO EXPLORE PRACTICE Do you pay your incentive house or outside meeting planner a flat fee for a meeting? Is that fee negotiated based on the assumption that you are getting the best possible hotel rate and that the...

Insurance Conference Planner welcomes its newest columnist, Jed R. Mandel, a partner in the Chicago-based law firm of Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg. Mandel specializes in the legalities of the meeting and convention industry, and is interested in...

From a new $268 million convention center to six new casino resorts, construction is booming throughout Atlantic City as the city undergoes yet another renaissance. Overall, a reported $7 billion is being spent on development, this city's biggest...

Turn Sales Training Secrets into Savvy Negotiating "What the heck does computer negotiation have to do with meeting planning?" That's what ICPA President Terry Christensen, LUTCF, manager of travel and meeting services at The Principal Financial...

Welcome baskets and pillow gifts are time-honored ways of showing your group their presence is appreciated. Locally made goods are an especially suitable way to extend any meeting's Hawaiian theme...