July 1, 2007 FIM
Cover Story
How Meetings and Compliance Work Together at Allstate Financial
With its aggressive scrutiny and costly enforcement actions, NASD has some planners shaking in their boots. But where others see pitfalls in trying to...
Editor's Note
Your New Best Friend
Remember a few years ago when the thought of working with your procurement department brought on anxiety attacks? Meeting planners, particularly those...
Last Laugh
Adventures in Paradise
One of the benefits of being a professional summarizer is that I get to travel to wild and exotic locations and try new and dangerous things. Many of...
Meeting Management
Getting Off Homeland Security's Watch List
What Do Sen Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and meeting professional Mike Burke, CMP, have in common? While neither of them belongs to a terrorist organization,...
Third-party Commission Clauses
CLAUSE: All room revenue is commissionable at 10 percent to Smith Meeting Services. Hotel agrees commission will be paid to Smith Meeting Services within...
NASD Sanctions Meeting Content
Citigroup Global Markets Inc. has agreed to pay more than $15 million to settle charges that a group of its financial advisers misled BellSouth employees...
Marriott on the Move
Some of the hot hospitality news for planners discussed at Marriott's Insurance & Financial Services Forum in May: Online bookings Marriott is in the...
e-RFPs: What You Need to Know
In just 11 years, electronic requests for proposal have grown from novelty features on hoteliers' Web sites to an entire subindustry with hundreds of...
When Employees Like Meetings
Sure, they get bashed all the time as time-wasters and money-drainers. But a 2006 survey of employees found that most people actually like meetings. The...
Incentives & Motivation
Making the Most of the Spa
An Interview with a Spa Director ...
Organizing a Successful Golf Event
Back in the early 1990s, Chuck Lane, director of public relations and incentive travel for Humana in Green Bay, Wis., organized a golf event at the Royal...
Golfing the British Isles
While in County Kerry, Ireland, several years ago, veteran meeting planner Paula Kelly, a vice president with the former AmerUs Annuity Group (now part...
The 8th Annual Las Vegas Corporate Invitational Golf Tournament
Few cities in the world change as rapidly as Las Vegas does; every time you visit, there's so much that's new. For example, at this year's Las Vegas Corporate...
Reports From The Field
Marriott Lets the Networking Roll
There was a surprise around every corner when the Marriott New Orleans at the Convention Center hosted the 2007 Marriott Insurance & Financial Services...
FICP Newsletter
FICP Newsletter
FICP Profiles Karyn Rizzo, CMP, senior manager, conference services, Sun Life Financial, is in her second year on the board of directors of FICP. Last...
Bonding in 2007: The FICP Annual
Every year, the FICP Annual Conference raises the bar, and this year will be no exception. For the past several months, The 2007 FICP Annual Design team,...
2007 Silent Auction
The 2007 Annual Conference will include a silent auction, with proceeds to benefit UMOM New Day Centers. Visit www.umom.org to learn more about this worthy...
Membership Rising
As of April 30, FICP had 413 members, surpassing the 2006 numbers from the same time period. Hospitality partner associates totaled 568, also up from...
Sites & Venues
Golf & Spa Resort Report
A 2007 recap of renovations to golf and spa resorts....
Grand Cayman and Jamaica
Two Caribbean Ritz-Carltons are teaming up to bring incentive or high-end meeting groups a really special adventure. Groups can experience two islands...
Mountain Meetings
What's New Improvements to Denver's Colorado Convention Center, the new Hyatt convention hotel, and a bigger budget for marketing the city helped make...
The Islands of Hawaii
What's New Oahu and Maui hotels have scored spectacular occupancy rates, in the 80 percent to 90 percent range, during the past two years. And the islands'...
Special Section
Hot-Topic Webinars
Two hot-topic webinars in July will focus on green meetings and contract best practices. On July 18, learn from the experts how to implement environmentally...
The Best Spa Treatments
Whether it's a pear-and-sugarcane scrub in Jamaica, a cranberry body treatment on Nantucket, or a coffee scrub in Hawaii, a or spa treatment is a great...
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