December 1, 2005 MM
Cover Story
Cisco Does a 360
With his highly acclaimed book Living on the Fault Line, author Geoffrey A. Moore turned managers' assumptions about how they should be spending their...
Upfront
Information Overload
I recently led a panel discussion at the Society of Incentive & Travel Executives' International Conference in Toronto, where my fellow industry magazine...
News & Info
Wilma's Whiplash: Cancun Works Toward Recovery
FOR THREE DAYS in October, Hurricane Wilma sat astride Cancun, Mexico, dumping rain, tearing at its beautiful white sand beaches, and damaging more than...
Struggling Airlines Pose Problems for Planners
With Delta and Northwest joining the ranks of bankrupt airlines in September, about 40 percent of available seats on domestic flights are with carriers...
Express Airport Security Going National
The Transportation Security Administration, which just completed a pilot Registered Traveler Program at five airports, plans to launch the program nationally...
wi-fi-palooza
The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center is laying its claim as the largest Wi-Fi enabled conference center in the country. Recently...
Saints and Surgery
Against all the odds, Alcon Laboratories Inc. held a meeting for international eye surgeons October 14-15 in post-Katrina New Orleans, broadcasting a...
Take 5
If you could be anywhere in the world, where would you be? Right where I am, close to family and friends in New England. I love the history of New England,...
Meetings
Tracking the Small Ones
With more companies centralizing their meeting management and consolidating expenditures, the focus is primarily on larger meetings those with more than...
Home, Sweet Home
When BASF Corp. was looking for a venue to introduce a new product to 30 Midwest-area retailers last year, it found a place with all the comforts of home...
big meetings shrinking
One-third of destination management companies expect revenues from large corporate meetings those with more than 200 attendees to be flat or decrease...
ROI: The Bottom Line
The acronym ROI appears regularly in industry articles and is widely used by meeting planners and suppliers yet there is confusion around the true meaning...
Starwood's Day Meetings Solution
Day meetings can be critical for companies, but they have often been a low priority for hotels because they don't require rooms. However, one hotel chain...
Site Inspections: Death of a Planning Tool?
Once upon a time, recalls meeting planner Christy Lamagna, site inspections were the rule. Now they have become the exception because of a variety of...
Incentives
Crystal Winners Sparkle in Toronto
During a special luncheon ceremony at the Society of Incentive & Travel Executives' International Conference, held in Toronto last month, the best of...
artisan gifts
Looking for truly special, one-of-a-kind gifts for your winners during an incentive trip to Canada? A new company, Shop the Valley, commissions the artists...
SITE Panel: More Companies Putting the Squeeze on Incentives
Incentive travel at many U.S. companies is feeling the pinch. Not only are trips shorter and closer to home, but some procurement officers are cutting...
Can Recognition Be Measured?
When you invest your money, you are primarily interested in generating a good return on that money. So why don't companies that invest in employees through...
No More Mr. Nice Guy
If you think that you've read every book on motivation and incentivizing employees and they're all pretty much the same, you haven't seen The Art of Demotivation...
Sites
Golf Comes to the Fore
On Daufuskie Island, S.C., Troon Golf took over management last year of the golf courses at DAUFUSKIE ISLAND RESORT & BREATHE SPA. Across Calibouge Sound...
Malaysia Moves into Incentives
With the May opening of the Four Seasons Resort in Langkawi the first North American chain to be represented there it looks like Malaysia has broken into...
bird's-eye view
Stonewall Resort in Weston, W.Va., which opened its Arnold Palmer Signature Course in 2002, has added aerial footage of that course to its Web site. Each...
Florida Meeting Planner's Guide
One of the keys to Florida's amazing success as a meeting and incentive destination has been its convenient air access. It promises to get...
Conference Canada
WHAT'S NEW Meeting planners know that Canada is much more than mountains, moose, and Mounties. The country's varied group destinations offer good value,...
Last Word
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If you want your meeting or incentive menus to work, your catering director needs key information about your event and your group. First,...
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