Pat Saether and Melissa Kopp are smiling now. But as they brainstormed the theme and promotional campaign for Legal & General America's Convention '98, they faced some challenges. Saether, manager, creative services, and Kopp, creative...

Carol Rice just returned from an Idaho vacation where she and her husband spent a week fly-fishing, horseback riding, hiking, and living with the bare essentials: clean sheets, basic plumbing, and three meals a day. Rice, who has been going on the...

Only 44 percent of companies attempt to measure the results of training--and even fewer measure their return on investment in financial terms, says a report by the New York City-based Conference Board. Despite the lack of hard numbers, however, 97...

The Nassau/Paradise Island Meeting Planner Advisory Board gathered in June in Nassau, Bahamas, the third time the group has met to discuss the destination's appeal as a meeting and incentive site. Of the group's 23 members, 12 attended. The board...

Radisson Hotels Worldwide earlier this year opened the Radisson at Sun Peaks Resort, in the heart of Canada's hot new Sun Peaks Resort tourist and ski area in British Columbia...

* Wyndham Hotels & Resorts recently assumed management of the 600-room L'Hotel Complexe Desjardins, now called the Wyndham Montreal Hotel. As part of the conversion, the hotel is undergoing a $10 million upgrade, which includes all guest rooms...

The Hawaiian Islands provided a picturesque setting for the seventh annual Lynette Owens & Associates (LOA) Insurance Advisory Board meeting. Attendees experienced first-class hotels and service at the Kapalua Bay Hotel & Villas on Maui...

Olympian Teamwork: These Speakers Have It Being part of a company and playing on a sports team have a lot in common--at least that's what some Olympic medal-winning athletes believe. Many of them are on the speaking circuit and have experience...

Hotels & Travel David Van Kalsbeek has been named senior vice president of sales and marketing for Starwood Hotels & Resorts. Van Kalsbeek, who will be based in the company's new headquarters in White Plains, N.Y., is a 16-year ITT...

Before you become a customer account representative in Zurich Canada's Integrated Group Solutions division, you are given an invitation to the reading of a last will and testament. Attendance is required...