Dan Burnstein is the kind of guy you want on your side of the negotiating table, and you can have him-virtually-for about $189. A past chair of the American Bar Association's negotiation skills interest group, Burnstein has a software product...

Here's the product for meeting planners with a little James Bond in their blood: Pencorder60. This snazzy looking (and patented) writing instrument doubles as a memo recorder, with a microchip rather than tape on which you can leave a total of 60...

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...