“This is probably the most challenging time in the history of the aviation industry,” said Barbara Nalbone, national accounts manager for Delta Air Lines, a sponsor of the 2003 I&FS Forum. Nalbone addressed the group with a brief update of the...
NEARLY EVERY insurance/financial services meeting professional sooner or later has to deal with planning some kind of golf event. Which is fine for the guys — almost 20 million of whom are golfers, according to the National Golf Foundation. But...
THE OLDEST GOLF COURSE in the Bahamas just got a $4.5 million facelift, and it was unveiled to meeting and golf media under a blazing Caribbean sun in February...
KEEPING TOP AGENTS motivated is a tall order. They may not be compensated like media stars or CEOs, but few groups of salespeople are as handsomely rewarded. Not to mention that they're continually courted by competing companies who try to lure...
ESPN and the editors at Zagat Survey have paired up to provide 2003 — America's Top Golf Courses. Thousands of the nation's leading golfers rated and reviewed 1,049 public, semi-private, and resort courses in the United States, Virgin Islands, and...
THIS IS ARGUABLY the most difficult time ever for meeting and incentive planners. In the past few months, since finishing the March/April issue of Insurance Conference Planner in late February and going to press with this issue in late April...
Richard Aaron, CMP, CSEP, president of New York City-based BiZBash Event Idea Center, was recently at the forefront of a mock meeting that was staged at the Garden City Hotel in Long Island, N.Y. His role: a meeting planner for a fictitious...
