For the eighth year, our readers have selected their favorite hotels and resorts. This month we honor the 30 top properties with our Premium Circle Award, acknowledging their excellence as meeting venues. Insurance companies' meeting executives...
Your company's senior management team has scheduled an annual retreat for the fall. The board of directors wants a two-day strategy session to finalize plans for the new millennium. You know it's a high-profile group and the meeting needs to be...
There is no doubt about who was the most well-received speaker at the 1999 World Education Congress of Meeting Professionals International, held in July at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Convention Center: Christopher Simeone. The 11-year- old walked...
Berlin Reborn Early in this century, Berlin's Potsdamer Platz was among the liveliest squares in Europe. Some 50 years later it was a desolate space between East and West Berlin, destroyed in World War II and watched over by guards. Now Potsdamer...
For more than 50 years, meeting suppliers have attended conferences sponsored by LIMRA (Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association) International, the premier marketing and research organization in the financial services industry. From the...
The Lure of the Links GOLF BOOM AT INSURANCE MEETINGS Last year was the second-best year ever for golf course construction, with 448 new courses opening, according to the National Golf Foundation in Jupiter, Fla. (The record of 468 was set in 1995...
Keeping die-hard golfers focused in a seminar room at a golf resort is tough. At Saddlebrook Resort in Tampa, the Arnold Palmer Golf Academy brings a little golf right into the meeting room, with golf-themed coffee breaks and instructional...
Anne Erickson, director of insurance sales at the Boca Raton (Fla.) Resort & Club, has added three properties to her sales responsibilities: the Registry Resort, Naples; Edgewater Beach Hotel, Naples; and the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix...
Have the answers to these questions ready before you call the golf director at your meeting resort. * What are your preferred course(s), date(s), and start time(s)...
HYATT, CONTINENTAL, AND TWA TOP LATEST CONSUMER SURVEYS Hyatt topped the list of upscale hotel chains in the J.D. Power and Associates 1999 Hotel Guest Satisfaction Study, closely followed by Marriott, Hilton and Wyndham (tied for third), and...
