The senior-level insurance and financial services executives who met at the awe-inspiring Resort at Squaw Creek, Lake Tahoe, Calif., in late July for the Lynette Owens Insurance Advisory Board enjoyed stimulating guest speakers and frank...

HAVING RECENTLY RETURNED from the Insurance Conference Planners Association Summer Educational Forum in New Orleans, I want to share some tricks of the trade that I discussed with planners who book speakers for incentive programs...

It’s not news that spa services now rival golf as a must-have activity for high-end incentive programs and meetings. The question is: Are popular treatments such as massages, facials, and pedicures negotiable? And if not, can you negotiate added...

THIS BEING OUR ANNUAL incentive issue, I've been thinking about what really motivates people in the workplace. Sometimes it's the smallest thing: for me, a word of acknowledgement from my boss, a brief e-mail note from a reader about an article in...

Kevin Mitchell, chairman of the Business Travel Coalition, has long been an advocate for the business traveler, shining a spotlight on airlines' monopolistic practices and relentlessly pursuing fairer fares. He says that low-fare carriers are here...

Almost 70 insurance and financial services planners came to the Ritz-Carlton in New Orleans on July 17 to 19 to learn, network, and have some fun. They got all that and more at the ICPA Summer Educational Forum, which this year included standout...

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ARE YOUR ATTENDEES bored with the ubiquitous scramble format for golf events? They might enjoy an alternative that was used with great success at a recent event in Puerto Rico...

WINDING THROUGH 600 ACRES of lush mountain terrain, The White Witch golf course at The Ritz-Carlton Golf & Spa Resort, Rose Hall, Jamaica, offers 6,718 yards of par-71 play. The course opened in August 2000 and brings Ritz-Carlton service to...

IN MAY, Insurance Conference Planner and its sister magazines held a roundtable about the global pressures on incentive travel, bringing together corporate planners and incentive house executives for a discussion about how such forces were...