Starwood is the latest hotel chain to get on the spa branding bandwagon. The Starwood Spa Collection consists of 30 elite spas around the globe, ranging from the Spa Gaucin at the St. Regis Monarch Beach in Dana Point, Calif., to the AltiraSpa at...
AS READERS OF THIS COLUMN will know, some of the most effective forms of recognition cost little or nothing at all. So it should come as no surprise that the most popular award at Total System Services, a subsidiary of financial services holding...
OCEAN EDGE RESORT, Brewster, Mass. There's no place like Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with its miles of dune-studded beaches and historic seaside towns. Sprawled out on 429 acres that includes 700 feet of beachfront along Cape Cod Bay, a PGA...
Earlier this year, Chris Levy, marketing manager for Houston-based NCI Building Systems, was looking for an incentive company to help him plan next year's annual sales meeting for an NCI divisional group, Metallic Building Co. Levy, in discussion...
The Inuksuk (pronounced ee-nook-shook) was a stone monument erected by the Inuit — the first people to inhabit portions of Alaska, Arctic Canada, and Greenland — to provide direction for travelers or communicate a message that would make the...
HOW CAN MANAGERS in high-turnover industries keep their people motivated? Some answers can be found in the latest research by the SITE Foundation, titled “Motivation in the Hospitality Industry.” The survey of employees in the fast-food and hotel...
DESPITE THE ONGOING POPULARITY of cruises — the original all-inclusive travel experience — corporate planners have historically been slow to embrace their land-based brethren, the all-inclusive resort. That seems to be changing...
