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...
Companies that thrive in the future will be those that figure out how to motivate an ever-diversifying workforce. It's not just the traditional salesperson who needs an incentive these days, according to Dr. Lawrence Watson of Hay Management...
Acknowledging the increasing globalization of its membership-only 45 percent are now in the U.S.-The Society of Incentive & Travel Executives (SITE) this year will hold regional University of Incentive Travel programs in its two most populous...
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...