Newport, RI, renowned as the summer home of the turn-of-the-century elite, continues to draw visitors to its historic mansions and yacht-filled harbor. In May, the town's 1909 Vanderbilt Hall becomes a 50-room "mansion house" hotel. The property...
Flying into Shannon International Airport, visitors look down on a patchwork quilt in countless shades of green. The Shannon Region's County Clare in the west of Ireland has a wild, expansive landscape dotted with castles, craggy cliffs, and...
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...
Dallas-based Patriot American Hospitality has acquired Carefree Resorts for $210 million. Patriot American owns more than 40 upscale hotels; Phoenix-based Carefree is made up of five exclusive resorts: The Boulders in Carefree, AZ; The Peaks...
THE demise of the slide show has been forecast for more than a decade, yet it remains one of the most effective presentation mediums in the meetings industry. I suspect it will be for a long time to come. Slides are cost-effective to create and...
What's good enough for the Internal Revenue Service is good enough for New York State, or so it seems from the content of a late December internal memorandum by the New York State Insurance Department's (NYID) now-departed Superintendent Edward...
After last year's dramatic increase in airfares, meeting executives may be looking at the new year with less than great expectations. Yet many airline analysts expect fares to stabilize or decrease in 1997. "I think airfares overall reached a peak...
THE demise of the slide show has been forecast for more than a decade, yet it remains one of the most effective presentation mediums in the meetings industry. I suspect it will be for a long time to come. Slides are cost-effective to create and...
The consolidation wave, building in the hotel industry for some time, hit the full-service sector with two mega-deals this winter. In late January, Hilton Hotels Corporation made a $6.5 billion hostile bid for ITT Sheraton, which quickly rejected...
With 2,035 rooms in 12 adjoining towers that re-create the New York skyline, it isn't easy to miss. New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas held its grand opening January 2. The megaproperty, which includes a Coney Island-style roller...