When meeting planners for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are sourcing a meeting, their RFPs include 14 questions designed to gauge a property's environmental awareness and the steps it is taking toward...
A stone's throw from Wall Street, there's an oasis in Manhattan: The Ritz-Carlton, Battery Park. This five-year-old beacon of style and service is more than a local favorite. For small to medium-sized meetings, the...
When an AIG senior executive arrived in Shanghai for a high-level meeting in 2004, he noticed AIG signs in his hotel. For a different meeting. “He said, ‘I should have known about this. Give me a list of all our...
More than one in three U.S. companies used incentive travel or merchandise to recognize or motivate employees last year, according to recent research from The Incentive Federation, an umbrella organization that...
The benchmarks are in, and the numbers are huge: U.S. companies spent $46 billion on travel and merchandise incentives in 2006, according to a study sponsored by the Incentive Federation, an umbrella organization that...
Kellie Carriker spent nearly a decade in group sales before jumping over to her true passion: the spa. Now spa director at the Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort & Spa, Carriker oversees a brand-new, 24,000-square...
Walk out from the glass-walled lobby, a towering A-frame, and stand amid palm trees. Wander down to soft white sand and watch the sun melt into the wide open sea. You could be in Bali. Or you could be at the Marco...
