Bonnie Beattie, recently retired as manager, meetings and conventions, for Equitable Life of Iowa, has been spending a lot of time in the hospital. Not as a patient, but as one half of a team going from bed to bed, visiting people recovering from...
IACC ON TECH TRACK Though the opening of the 18th annual conference of the International Association of Conference Centers centered around a prehistoric theme (with the co-chairs dressed as Fred and Wilma Flintstone and speaking from the imaginary...
Golf is a passion. No other activity or event during your conference elicits such emotion. That passion combines with the chance to spend four or five hours outdoors with "the right foursome" to generate incredible enthusiasm among golfers. That...
PAYNE TAKES IT AT PINEHURST The stylish Payne Stewart made it an exciting finish at the U.S. Open, winning by one stroke over Phil Mickelson on Pinehurst's Number 2 course. Some 48 corporate sponsors filled the event's major hospitality tents with...
PLANSOFT REJIGGERS WEB SITE PlanSoft Corp. relaunched its Web site in late June, creating four distinct tracts. While www.plansoft.com previously was aimed at the entire meeting industry, it now has unique services for meeting planners, facilities...
The Sagamore: Golf's Adirondack Retreat Picture Scotsman Donald Ross, the great tournament player and course architect, who, it's been said, turned golf course design from an engineering job into an art form, musing about his next design challenge...
Why golf one Hawaiian island when you can try four? American Hawaii Cruises is offering a seven-night itinerary, with stops at five ports, to groups of 10 to 1,021--the maximum passengers its S.S. Independence ocean liner can accommodate...
In the United States Golf Association's Rules of Golf, the first subject addressed is etiquette, before any discussion of rules and definitions. Golf is a game that involves discipline, integrity, companionship, and competition...
The 963-room Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca Raton, Fla., last year reopened its 18-hole Resort Course (one of two 18-hole championship courses at the club) after a $6.5 million redesign. The course now features more than 12 acres of water...
