1998 Paragon Awards Corporate Meetings & Incentives announces the winners of its 1998 Paragon Awards. We have asked our readers to choose the hotels, resorts, and conference centers that did the best job of handling their meetings and...

Selected by tourism officials as the ideal resort location nearly three decades ago, Cancun has developed into a five-star city with a growing number of convention hotels, group facilities, and a world-class convention center...

An unprecedented construction boom has seized the city of Calgary, in the western province of Alberta. It's a boom fueled in part by plans to expand and renovate the city's aging convention center...

A Supersonic Incentive Take attendees to new heights on Air France's Concorde flights--destination not included. Air France recently introduced group Concorde flights with no destination, and hopes to sell these "flights to nowhere" as the...

The tax on hotel rooms is 10.625 percent in Phoenix, 10.725 percent in Scottsdale, 9.875 percent in Mesa, 10.025 percent in Tempe, and, depending on the location, between 7.5 percent and 9.5 percent in the Tucson area. The sales tax in Arizona...

All Aboard the Time Machine Fiji goes on daylight savings time later this year, for the first time in its history. This will make it the first country in the world to go into the 21st century, according to Karen Marvell, director of sales for...

Obtaining travel documents for an international meeting can challenge even seasoned travelers. Depending on the destination, for example, meeting attendees and speakers may need to apply for visas several months in advance of the conference. And...

The largest-ever European Incentive & Business Travel & Meetings Exhibition took place in Geneva, Switzerland, May 12 to 14, with 2,400 exhibitors and 7,500 attendees from 108 countries...

Arizona's great weather and scenic splendor are often enough to convince meeting executives to select the Grand Canyon State as a meeting site. Then there are the luxury properties concentrated in the two major metropolitan areas, Tucson and...

Organizations and Associations International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus (IACVB) www.iacvb.org ...