Greg Knapp, director of conference man- agement services for university housing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in January began a two-year term as president of the International Association of Conference Centers (IACC). In his first...
The Vail (CO) Cascade Hotel & Club completed a $2 million renovation at the end of 1996 that updated its lobby areas, ballrooms, and prefunction areas...
Oahu, Hawaii's most populous island, has always drawn a large share of the meetings and incentives market. Now, with the July 1998 opening of the 1.16 million-square-foot Hawai'i Convention Center, the island will have even more to offer groups...
For the fifth summer, Lynette Owens & Associates (LOA), a hotel marketing firm based in Rancho La Costa, CA, brought together a group of senior insurance executives and hoteliers for the annual LOA Insurance Advisory Board Meeting...
Add this to your paperless, virtual office: the FaxView Personal Fax Reader. This 7.8-ounce gadget (on facing page, top) can receive a fax or e-mail anywhere there's a telephone line or a cellular phone. Once the fax comes in, just peer into the...
The Motivation Show-the combined 24th Incentive Travel & Marketing Executives Show (IT&ME) and 63rd National Premium/Incentive Show-attracted record turnout to Chicago's McCor-mick Place in October...
Audience response keypads aren't a new idea: Attendees are each given a small keypad with which to answer questions. They can pick yes or no, or punch in a number that correlates to choices of answers, usually projected on a screen. The audience's...
Wrap your mind around this one: a telephone system that screens and routes incoming calls according to your (verbal) instructions, places outgoing calls by your voice command, stores your telephone contact list, and reminds you of upcoming...
When Kitty Ratcliffe became president of Meeting Professionals International (MPI), she promised the 14,000-plus members of the organization that she would keep them "ahead of the curve." Now serving her term, the 13-year hospitality industry...
