Registration is still open for Meeting Visions 2002, the third annual meeting technology conference convening in Maui December 5 to 9. The event's speaker roster is a who's who of technology meeting experts, including senior managers from Cisco...
Meeting Professionals International has reopened its European office, now in Luxembourg, and named Titta Rosvall as its European operations manager. After six months without a European office, MPI's 1,200 European members will have the support of...
The new 250-room full-service Renaissance Fort Lauderdale — Plantation Hotel, a contemporary, nine-story property, has 10,000 square feet of meeting space, including nine meeting rooms and a ballroom that can accommodate 450 people banquet-style...
Résumés and work orders — the key documents that define your meeting for a hotel or convention facility — have been under the microscope of the Convention Industry Council's Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX). And now it's your turn. After...
The 839-room Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand, recently debuted its 174-room Krungthep Wing's refurbishment. The rooms feature private balconies with views of the Chao Phraya River and the hotel's extensive gardens. The 16-story wing has its...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics now officially recognizes meeting and convention planners as an occupational classification. Coded 13-1121, the bureau broadly defines the position in one sentence: “Coordinate activities of staff and convention...
If you want your incentive programs to appeal to independent agents, think younger than in the past. The demographics of individuals leading independent insurance agencies are changing, says the 2002 Agency Universe study. The study, released in...
I've rarely encountered as savvy and experienced a group of insurance and financial services conference planners as those who attended the KSL Insurance Advisory Board, held at the Doral in Miami in late October. So when they talked, I listened...
