Jump Ahead a few years: It's 2010 and your group is heading out of Vancouver, B.C., in late morning after a splendid evening at the Winter Olympics' ice dancing trials. You're riding the Whistler Mountaineer Express, one of the luxury trains the Great Canadian Railtour will launch on the Vancouver to Whistler route (about an hourlong ride) in May. Glaciers loom as you leave the temperate climate of Vancouver, where there is nary a snowflake, for the snowy slopes of Whistler and the ski jumping competition. Could there be a better way to reward your incentive qualifiers?

Vancouver and Whistler are buzzing with excitement as they prepare to host the 2010 Winter Games. The Games have given impetus to Vancouver International Airport's $1.4 billion project to add nine more international gates; expand customs, check-in, passenger screening, and baggage handling; expand capacity to handle larger aircraft such as the Airbus A380; and complete a new rapid-transit line linking to downtown Vancouver. Major groups, including Meeting Professionals International's World Education Conference, to be held in July 2010, are already booking the expanded Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre, expected to be completed in 2008.