Value-Added Tax (VAT) is called different names in countries around the world. For example, the acronym is GST in Canada, MOMS in Sweden, MwST in Germany, TVA in France, and BTW in the Netherlands. Essentially these acronyms all refer to the same...
Prepare Yourself 1.Perhaps the very best place to start your familiarization with a country that you are considering as a meeting or incentive site is the Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. Contact the DOC, Desk Officer, [Specific Country]...
Incentive itineraries often include an annual golf tournament. But there are other ways to put golf on the schedule, many of them geared specifically toward women...
Is it safe to register for a meeting on the Web or to use a credit card to purchase airline tickets online? Are you in danger of catching a virus when you download files from the Web? There's a lot of inaccurate information going around about...
The Midwest site file in the March/April 1998 issue of ICP should have included this information: Lisle, Ill. offers 1,471 guest rooms 25 miles west of Chicago, between O'Hare and Midway airports...
Charles P. Rogers, director of sales promotion of American United Life Insurance Company in Indianapolis, has brought incentive groups to Scottsdale three times in the past two years. Working with a destination management company, he has found...
Yikes! You've just been asked to book a meeting for 50 people, with several breakout rooms, and it's a mere two weeks out. Impossible, you respond...
All major U.S. airlines and two European carriers fly into Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Most Phoenix/Scottsdale hotels and resorts are within a 30-minute drive of the Phoenix airport. The taxi fare to downtown Phoenix is about $12...