You might not have time to catch up on the pile of business magazines on your desk, but you'll have time for Sales Doctors Magazine. The site is updated every Monday morning with a dozen short articles on sales, marketing, and management. It is...
* CHANGINGFACES Alan Sims has been promoted to national director of sales for Omni Hotels, headquartered in Irving, Texas. Sims will oversee the national sales offices in Dallas and Austin...
Having spent $22 million to build a luxurious, world-class spa and to remodel its 207 guest rooms, the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa in Ojai, Calif. has renewed its reputation as an elegant hideaway. The 31,000-square-foot spa complex includes a 1,600...
Overseas travel has inherent health risks--some serious, some just minor annoyances. Here's what you can do to ensure that your company's attendees will feel no pain when they go beyond U.S. borders...
Richard Marcus, President of American Woolen Co. in Miami, recently scrapped plans to hold a pair of incentive meetings for about 200 distributors and their spouses in Indonesia this spring. "It would be reckless to go there right now," says...
Patrick Kennedy, Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, had just 10 days to scout the D.C. area for a facility for the Mideast Summit last October. The State Department required a venue within an hour's helicopter ride from the capital...
Congratulations once again to the 31 outstanding hotels and resorts chosen by our readers as Premium Circle Award winners in 1998, the seventh year of our awards program. Launched by Insurance Conference Planner in 1992, the program recognizes top...
Hotel companies are dealing with in-room connectivity and productivity in a variety of ways--from workstations that wheel from guest to guest, to T1 data ports for every room. Hilton Hotels has come up with a comprehensive approach that may set...
If you are planning a meeting for the year 2000, you need to address the so-called Y2K problem. In brief: Most computers cannot properly process a post-1999 date field. The result is that without significant reprogramming, most computers could...
Imagine that you want to lose weight or quit smoking, but haven't been motivated enough to try. Now imagine that your company offers you cash incentives for meeting your weight loss goals or for kicking the habit...