Its desert locale hasn't stopped the Hyatt Regency Dubai from bringing the magic of winter to special events. Located in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, the 400-room hotel stages a dazzling "Evening on Ice" theme party around its ice rink...

* Don't touch anything at the table until your host picks up his napkin or takes a sip of water...

Is One of Your Attendees Missing His Best Friend? Then let him take Pierre for a walk. Pierre is the London Mews Hilton's eight-year-old black springer spaniel, now available to go on walks with guests missing their own dogs back home. The 72-room...

Buchheit, director of travel and meeting services at Black & Decker Corporation in Towson, MD, is tired of paying ever-steeper airfares for business and meeting travel on monopoly routes. A founding member of Business Travel Contractors...

The Insurance Conference Planners Association (ICPA) Forum, held in June at the Renaissance Chicago, provided a stage for the first complete unveiling of the nearly released Ajenis software product and the PlanSoft Network, designed to...

* Do your agents know variable products? In a recent issue of National Underwriter, columnist and Chatham, MA&shyp;based attorney Hill Gallagher predicted the next life insurance scandal will come about because of how variable-life products...

Four months after its opening, the National Trade Centre in Toronto has booked 14 new events, representing $1.1 million in confirmed new business. With more than one million square feet of exhibit space, the facility is positioned as North America...

Florida's West Coast has a well-deserved reputation for music and the arts, with symphonies, ballets, and big-name concerts in Tampa, Sarasota, and Naples. Museums such as the Salvador Dali Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Florida...

Meeting planners take note: the adventure travel industry has emerged from an awkward adolescence, marked by years of identity crises and unregulated growth. Now it's on the way to a healthy adulthood, with regulations in place for land use and...

Good news for next year's meeting budget: Travel costs are expected to rise only 4.7 percent over this year, according to a recent report from Runzheimer International. The Rochester, WI-based management consulting firm came up with the figure...