The Department of Homeland Security plans to relax the passport requirements for children who are citizens of the U.S. and Canada traveling into the United States via land and sea...

About 35 planners and 20 suppliers gathered January 4 to 6 for FICP's Northeast Chapter winter meeting at the sleek and stylish new Inter-Continental Boston. Jennifer Squeglia, CMP, Fidelity Brokerage Co., and her design team put together a...

As he planned a June 2007 Allstate Insurance Co. incentive trip to the Caribbean, Mark Mosley thought long and hard about his group's flight arrangements. His final conclusion: Between the sky-high fares and the many inconveniences now associated...

“Globalization” was the watchword at Meeting Professionals International 2007 Professional Education Conference in New Orleans late January...

On February 1, the FICP board of directors, together with the Hospitality Partners Committee held a strategic planning session at the Charleston Place Hotel in Charleston, S.C. The purpose of the meeting was to get the Board and HPC to engage in...

Robert Kalt left his job as meeting planner for Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J., with a mission: He wanted to find a better way to dispose of all the extra food and goodies at the end of a meeting, rather than dumping them in the...

The New Hall D at Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, opened last year. With a dramatic glass wall facing the scenic North Saskatchewan River Valley, Hall D has room for 1,200 people for meals or receptions, or 2,000 theater-style. The...

According to a recent incentive trends survey conducted by Corporate Meetings & Incentives (sister magazine to Financial & Insurance Meetings), budgets and per-person spending are up, while group size is shrinking...

“Every planner will be faced with first aid needs at one time or another,” said safety consultant Michael Giordano during an information-packed presentation at Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Northeast Chapter winter meeting. “The...

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, long at the helm of environmental awareness, has come up with a new way to go green. The company has purchased, on an initial one-year basis, the equivalent of 116 MWh of wind power through a Canadian nonprofit...