Hyatt Regency Kauai Resort & Spa 1571 Poipu Road Koloa, HI 96756 Phone (808) 742-1234 Fax (808) 742-6229 Director of Sales and Marketing Kelly Hoen Director of Conference Services Steven Pidgley ...

IT'S easy to become complacent with the routine. "We've always done our general sessions this way--it's the way our agents like it!" But we can almost always improve our sessions--often at little cost. And attendees will definitely notice the...

It's rare to have more than one destination management company (DMC) handle the logistics of a familiarization trip. For Adams Business Media's Showcase Site Inspection in Costa Rica, nine DMCs worked together closely to help sponsor the four...

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PlanSoft's site-selection and contact engine is up and running at www.plansoft.com. Membership is free to planners. In barely two months of operation, the PlanSoft site has registered more than 250 members, says Edward J. Tromczynski, PlanSoft...

JUST OPENED In May, Portland, OR's new Fifth Avenue Suites Hotel opens downtown with 82 guest rooms, 135 550-square-foot suites, and four grand suites. The property is being constructed in the 1912 Lipman Wolfe building, most recently a department...

We don't want to be the biggest--we want to be the best." That used to be Westin's motto. "It worked for 60 years. Now, we know we have to expand to survive," said Brian Windle, Westin's director of sales, resorts, in opening the Sixth Annual...

Being at the Disney Institute is like going to camp," is how one guest described his three-day experience at the dedication of the new Disney Institute. This is no ordinary camp, though. Guests at the lakeside enclave at Walt Disney World Resort...

What do you do when the biggest hotel in town completes a $52 million renovation during the town's 50th anniversary year...

Two thirds of the affiliates in the Mr. Meeting Network conducted 1,139 events in 1996--an estimated $31 million in billings--according to John E. Kelly, founder and president of the Jenkintown, PA-based organization. (The final third had not...