Lynette Owens & Associates (LOA) is taking advantage of new communications technologies to provide up-to-date information to its hotel and insurance clients. The a nine-year-old, Rancho La Costa-based hotel marketing and respresentation firm...

The Insurance Conference Planners Association (ICPA) Forum, held in June at the Renaissance Chicago, provided a stage for the first complete unveiling of the nearly released Ajenis software product and the PlanSoft Network, designed to...

* Do your agents know variable products? In a recent issue of National Underwriter, columnist and Chatham, MA&shyp;based attorney Hill Gallagher predicted the next life insurance scandal will come about because of how variable-life products...

Four months after its opening, the National Trade Centre in Toronto has booked 14 new events, representing $1.1 million in confirmed new business. With more than one million square feet of exhibit space, the facility is positioned as North America...

Meeting planners take note: the adventure travel industry has emerged from an awkward adolescence, marked by years of identity crises and unregulated growth. Now it's on the way to a healthy adulthood, with regulations in place for land use and...

Good news for next year's meeting budget: Travel costs are expected to rise only 4.7 percent over this year, according to a recent report from Runzheimer International. The Rochester, WI-based management consulting firm came up with the figure...

What's great about PlanSoft's Ajenis software is not that you can quickly and easily create documents like meeting resumes and banquet event orders on your computer. It's that the documents you create can be sent back and forth electronically...

The October 15 to 17 Motivation Show-which is made up of the 24th Incentive Travel & Meeting Executives Show (IT&ME) and the 63rd National Premium/Incentive Show-takes over McCormick Place North in Chicago again this fall. For information...

Is One of Your Attendees Missing His Best Friend? Then let him take Pierre for a walk. Pierre is the London Mews Hilton's eight-year-old black springer spaniel, now available to go on walks with guests missing their own dogs back home. The 72-room...

The highlights of the board's business program were two professional football figures, Stanford All-American and five-time National Football League All-Pro Brian Holloway and NFL referee Jim Tunney. Both bring a sports metaphor--and something more...