Whistler Resort to Expand By December 1997, the 342-room Cha-teau Whistler Resort will add 221 guest rooms and a 12,000-square-foot ballroom with drive-in access, plus four breakout rooms and a rooftop garden terrace. The expansion will cover 150...

The dozen or so products, ideas, and Web sites on these pages are just a blip on the technology horizon. Want more? Two prominent meeting in-dustry organizations, the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) and the American Society...

On a fam trip, you should participate in all planned activities. But you shouldn't accept gifts of more than nominal value...

Meeting Candidate Network, a New York City-based executive search firm, has added a division to fill incentive travel planning positions within corporations and incentive travel firms. The division will target openings for incentive department...

MALAYSIA In Malaysia, steamy jungles and white beaches coexist alongside glass-and-steel skyscrapers and ultramodern shopping malls. Kuala Lumpur, the capital, is the starting point for most corporate groups. Established in 1857 as a tin-mining...

Incentive travel tops the list when it comes to ways of rewarding employees, according to the 1996 ECS Survey of Sales & Marketing Personnel Compensation. Almost three quarters of the 921 respondents to the survey said they reward employees...

If you've seen one crystal-chandeliered ballroom, you've seen them all. So how's a meeting hotel to distinguish itself these days...

Forget the celebrity speaker: Corporations would rather pay for industry insights than name recognition, says a new survey commissioned by Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and the National Speakers Association (NSA)...

Gary Pugatch has joined Williams Hospitality Group of San Juan, PR, as vice president of sales and marketing. Pugatch, who will be based in Miami, had been area director of sales and marketing for the Westins of New England. Williams Hospitality...