The long-anticipated Meetings Exchange and Ajenis products will debut, in stages, at upcoming meetings, according to Ed Tromczynski, president, PlanSoft Ajenis, LP, based in Twinsburg, OH. The site selection database, one component of the Meetings...

The fourth annual survey of physician preferences in continuing medical education (CME) has several informational firsts. For the first time, we asked physicians to indicate all the ways in which they obtained CME credit. We also broke out data on...

Welcome baskets and pillow gifts are time-honored ways of showing your group their presence is appreciated. Locally made goods are an especially suitable way to extend any meeting's Hawaiian theme...

Affectionately dubbed the "Garden Isle," Kauai offers a peaceful escape from everyday life with abundant natural beauty. The northernmost of the Hawaiian islands, Kauai is actually the top of an undersea volcano. Mountainous and lush, the island...

In few places are the contrasts as bold as on the Big Island of Hawaii. Here, crystal waters crash against a shore of black lava and white coral. Lush rain forests dotted by 400-foot waterfalls lie only miles from the barren molten landscape...

For most of this century, tiny Lanai was known as Pineapple Island and was the private domain of the Dole Food Company, which used its 18,000 acres to lead the world in production of the sweet fruit. Dole still owns much of the island, but has...

Hawaii's Big Island is astounding in its diversity. Home of a still-active volcano and black-sand beaches, it also has sweeping pastures dotted with grazing cattle, fields of sugarcane and macadamia trees, snow-capped peaks, a historic seaport...

Hawaii is already a favorite destination for corporate meetings and incentives, and it is poised to become more popular than ever for groups with the opening of the long-awaited Hawai'i Convention Center in July 1998, which will have positive...

The most popular of the neighbor islands for visitors, Maui is a true gem with its 120 miles of beaches, picture-perfect waterfalls, verdant jungles, and the daunting presence of Haleakala, an extinct volcano that rises up more than 10,000 feet...

Oahu, Hawaii's most populous island, has always drawn a large share of the meetings and incentives market. Now, with the July 1998 opening of the 1.16 million-square-foot Hawai'i Convention Center, the island will have even more to offer groups...