The scenario is a familiar one: During the course of a meeting, someone comes up with an idea that is passed over by the rest of the group. Later on, someone else proposes the same idea--and it is enthusiastically endorsed...

Hip, Hot, Waiting for Insurance Agents Parties are back. Now a new downtown club called Life wants to give your qualifiers the real New York City party experience. It's billed as the Studio 54 of the '90s, haunt of the glamorous and the...

* Woody King has formed his own company, Destination Management & Marketing, Ltd., based in Columbus, OH. A 30-year veteran of the hospitality and convention industry, King had most recently served as vice president of the Greater Columbus...

IT seems like yesterday, but more than five years have passed since the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) went into effect. Today, most meeting planners know to take ADA requirements into consideration on site visits, during negotiations, and...

A meeting management firm recently acquired by United Airlines plans to go after new clients among the Fortune 500. Randy Hannon, president of the Premier Group of Rolling Meadows, IL, says United's ownership of the company "will open a lot of...

Hyatt Regency Kauai Resort & Spa 1571 Poipu Road Koloa, HI 96756 Phone (808) 742-1234 Fax (808) 742-6229 Director of Sales and Marketing Kelly Hoen Director of Conference Services Steven Pidgley ...

IT'S easy to become complacent with the routine. "We've always done our general sessions this way--it's the way our agents like it!" But we can almost always improve our sessions--often at little cost. And attendees will definitely notice the...

Don't call it a seller's market. Brian Quinn, national sales manager at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, prefers to call it "a time of parity and partnership." What does he mean? More than ever, he said, it's a time when planners and...

The city of Berlin is apparently one huge construction site as a massive reshaping is taking place to prepare for the transfer of the capital from Bonn to Berlin. There is so much construction that the city is actually packaging special interest...

It's rare to have more than one destination management company (DMC) handle the logistics of a familiarization trip. For Adams Business Media's Showcase Site Inspection in Costa Rica, nine DMCs worked together closely to help sponsor the four...