Getting Started 1. Skip the phone tag and long-distance charges, and surf the Web. The major online service providers have travel forums with information about individual countries. Or, visit www.goeurope.com, a European travel Web site. You also...
Up and Coming * Chicago's historic Silversmith Building is being transformed into the Crowne Plaza Chicago Silversmith. When the hotel opens in December, the ten-story, 1897 structure will have 143 guest rooms and meeting space for groups of up to...
Air Consortium Signs Regional Carriers Business Travel Contractors Corporation (BTCC) is pursuing its goal of "more rational," less costly business travel airfares through new agreements with two low-fare airlines plus a proposal to promote low...
The International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus (IACVB) board of directors has approved a new strategic plan. Among its eight goals, IACVB will develop programming to serve the global CVB market; change from an organization-based...
Almost three quarters of insurance companies have access to the Internet, according to a recent Internet Usage Survey conducted by the Life Communicators Association (LCA). Of the 135 respondents to the survey, 72 percent said their companies have...
The upcoming European Incentive & Business Travel & Meetings Exhibition, to be held May 13 to 15 at Geneva's Palexpo Exhibition Centre, will be a very different-and significantly larger-event from the first EIBTM in 1988. The 1988...
Focus, exhilaration, intensity: Adventure is the driving force behind the fastest-growing segment of the national travel market. And the adrenaline rush that Baby Boom professionals demand from their leisure-time activities is growing as an...
There's nothing like a Ritz-Carlton for holding meetings, according to the first-ever survey of meeting professionals done by J.D. Power and Associates. When asked which hotels do the best job with their meetings, the majority of the 2,600 survey...
Meeting technology was at the forefront of the educational program at the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Professional Education Conference (PEC) in January. At an off-site TechLab, attendees used a variety of software packages...
Revenues for the North American teleconferencing industry broke the $4 billion dollar mark in 1995, according to the International Teleconferencing Association (ITCA), and were expected to reach $4.9 billion in 1996. ITCA says videoconferencing...
