May 1, 2004
Cover Story
doing more with less
Washington Mutual Senior Vice President for Internal Communication Rob Hallam and his 15-person planning team learned last October about company-wide...
Editor's Note
ICPA Forges Its Future
DID YOU KNOW that the Insurance Conference Planners Association no longer exists? Okay, I wanted to get your attention, but the truth is that ICPA officially...
Meeting Management
New Visa Regs Hit International Attendees
NEW RULES GOVERNING the granting of entry visas to the United States are starting to impact the meeting industry. The Fifth World Chinese Life Insurance...
Hotel Profits on the Rise in 2004
According to the 2004 P&L Forecast recently published by the Hospitality Research Group of PKF Consulting, hotels in the United States will see profitability...
Sorry, You Walk
CLAUSE: No Room at the Inn In an effort to maximize their revenues, hotels regularly sell more hotel rooms than they have for a given night. This concept...
ICP INDEX: MAY/JUNE 2004
Total insurance premiums for the Chinese market in 2003: $47 Billion
Percentage of Americans who have no idea what their health insurance premiums cost: 12%...
CIC Releases Report
The question of how to hold an environmentally friendly meeting is one that more and more planners are grappling with. For answers, they can now turn...
Tighter Controls on Meetings?
Many insurance and financial services planners have to comply with strict National Association of Securities Dealers requirements for their training and...
Need An Icebreaker?
If you're looking for a meeting icebreaker, check out this idea from Leapfrog Innovations. Have everyone write on an index card a question that would...
NBTA White Paper
The National Business Travel Association has released its first white paper in the meetings arena. The 13-page report offers a high-level profile of the...
Technology Rules
With a need to reduce costs, and with the promise of substantial return on investment, insurance companies seem increasingly eager to use new technologies...
On the Law
Taxes on Cancellation Fees? Ouch!
HOW DOES IT FEEL to be caught in a vise? Ask the meeting planner trying to resolve a payment due under a cancellation or attrition penalty. Obviously,...
Incentives & Motivation
All-Inclusives Catch On
DESPITE THE ONGOING popularity of cruises the original all-inclusive travel experience corporate planners have historically been slow to embrace their...
A Classy Gift
One of the virtues of insurance, according to Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker and president and founder of the Cartoon Bank, is that it...
In the Cards
When Brokerage Financial Inc. executives heard that their top producers were increasingly unhappy with the company's traditional travel incentive program,...
A New Wave of Insurance Incentives
THIS YEAR, MARKETSHARE FINANCIAL INC. OF INDIANAPOLIS WILL HOLD its annual incentive meeting at the Trump Sonesta Resort in Miami Beach. ECA Marketing...
Reports from the Field
Training on the Upswing
THINGS ARE FINALLY looking up for financial services training, according to a panel at the March annual meeting of the International Association of Conference...
ICPA Newsletter
Message from the President
Dear ICPA Members and Hospitality Partners: Recently you received an e-mail from me, explaining that the ICPA Board of Directors had voted to change the...
Sites & Venues
ALL-INCLUSIVE Resorts
IN MEXICO'S RIVIERA MAYA, the strip of fast-developing coastline south of Cancun and north of the Mayan ruins at Tulum, the 446-room Iberostar Paraiso...
The Caves, Jamaica
AS I DISCOVERED at The Caves in Negril, Jamaica, not every all-inclusive hotel is a mega-playground. Rather, the Caves is a jewel-box retreat for top-tier...
Desert Meetings
WHAT'S NEW The popularity of desert destinations for meetings continues unabated, motivating sunbelt cities to invest in improvements to their infrastructure...
Last Laugh
Carpe Diddley
AS THE MOVERS and shakers of the world continue to move and shake, the Baby Boomer generation is concentrating on remaining as motionless as possible....
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