IN LAS VEGAS, Green Valley Ranch, which opened in December 2001, has just started an expansion of a second tower including 290 rooms and 35,000 square feet of meeting space. Plans call for completion of the project in November 2004. The resort...
Judy Parker, director, national accounts, Marriott Global Sales Organization, has moved to 400 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 610, Chicago, Ill. 60611. Phone: (312) 527-9470; Fax: (312) 527-9728. Her e-mail remains the same: [email protected].
Since the International Association of Conference Centers' 1981 founding, members' adherence to the organization's strict standards for conference room design, conference and business services, and technology has been based on “the honor system,”...
THE SULTRY, EXOTIC side of Havana is making its way to the Atlantic City Boardwalk in the form of a $245 million, grand-scale dining, entertainment, retail, and spa complex called The Quarter at Tropicana Casino and Resort, set to open in March...
A BACKPACK WITH special amenities and a visit from Shrek are among the treats in store for kids at Jefferson Pilot Financial's annual incentive convention at Loews Portofino Bay near Universal Studios in Orlando in April. The Greensboro, N.C...
The insurance market “has been a steady producer” for the Hilton family of hotels — six brands with a total of about 2,157 properties — according to a group of top execs from Hilton Sales Worldwide who spent a day at the Waldorf-Astoria in New...
Don't think of your meeting as a meeting — just for the moment. Think of it like it's a Hollywood movie. First, people pay full freight to get the full experience at the theater. Three months later, they can get it for $3 at Blockbuster; three...
IT'S CRAZY THAT some insurance and financial services companies would entrust their meeting departments with million-dollar budgets to plan incentive programs for their most valued producers, but not pay a small fraction of that cost to send their...
