SOME MEETINGS ARE never going to take place at a luxury hotel. Alicen Holmes, a meeting planner with Cisco Systems in San Jose, Calif., and panelist at the Ritz-Carlton Luxury Meetings Forum, an event for meeting trade editors held at the Ritz...
At Meeting Professionals International Professional Education Conference, held January 18 to 20 in San Antonio, Terri Breining, CMP, CMM, chairwoman of the MPI board of directors and president of Concepts Worldwide, and Colin Rorrie, PhD, CAE...
THE COVER STORY of this issue focuses on technology, and it got me to thinking about how much we now live in a techno world. From financial services to shopping to meeting planning, technology is having an impact on every aspect of our lives. So...
The 007 theme song was playing as we stepped into the Juniper room at the Essex Conference Center & Retreat in Essex, Mass. A woman dressed in a black and animal print outfit peered down her sunglasses at us (it was a dark and rainy day), gave...
Greetings from the Great White North! I have just experienced my first ICPA board meeting and have quite a to-do list in front of me. One of my more exciting to-do's will be to pick up where my predecessor left off in growing our membership, with...
Sam Stanton, who calls himself “button pusher” on his business card from Dallas-based redbutton.tv, is one of the foremost purveyors — and evangelists — of the digital photography revolution. Redbutton.tv (www.redbutton.tv) has also become the...
TWENTY-SIX INSURANCE/financial services meeting planners attended a familiarization trip hosted by The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. and Marriott International from October 31 to November 2 at the new Grande Lakes Orlando, prior to the Insurance...
Four years after it first set sail, the art deco grandeur of the Disney Wonder still wows the crowds — including several insurance meeting planners who sailed the ship in early November on a Seminar at Sea co-sponsored by Coral Gables, Fla....
ASSOCIATIONS AREN'T the only ones affected by attendees finding hotel rates on the Web lower than the planner's negotiated rates, said participants in a discussion session at the Insurance Conference Planners Association Annual Meeting at Orlando...
