Our company, like many, is in the process of belt tightening. In reducing our workforce, one of the good people we lost was the media coordinator for my large incentive conferences. Faced with finding the best way to replace him, I am making a...
At the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau, Ann Wubbena has been named director, Northeast region sales. She will be responsible for sales in New England and New York state. Previously, Wubbena was director of sales for the Puerto Rico...
Meeting at the elegant Four Seasons Resort Aviara north of San Diego, a group of insurance conference planners and Four Seasons representatives — including June Locke, national insurance sales manager, and Thomas Hubler, vice president sales...
Insurance conference planners and insurance sales managers from Krisam-represented resorts gathered at the Registry Resort in Naples, Fla., in June for the Krisam Insurance Advisory Board & Fam Trip, known as KRIAB...
For Michael Key, the Durham, N.C.-based director of meetings and incentives for Monumental Life Insurance Co., Tuesday, September 11, was the beginning of an unprecedented week. He had recently increased the room guarantee at the Moon Palace...
The heinous events of September 11 have dramatically affected the peace and tranquility of our society, and will forever change us in ways great and small. Our nation is joined in a common expression of shock, grief, and renewed patriotism...
The eighth Annual Coyote Classic, the annual golf tournament sponsored by The Meetings Group, publisher of Insurance Conference Planner and five other meeting magazines, hit a high note this year with the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa in...
My world changed four months before September 11, when we learned my husband had cancer. This news came as much out of the blue as the terrorist attacks, and it altered our personal universe just as the world was altered on a global scale after 9...
Agents at Cedar Rapids, Iowa — based Life Investors Insurance Co. of America are working hard to qualify for a cruise incentive next February. “Considering what's going on in the market right now, we're very happy how excited our agents are,” says...