The combination of year-round warm and sunny weather, excellent golf options, and a plethora of top-notch, full-service resorts have made the desert meeting destinations of Arizona, California, and Nevada long-time favorite locales for insurance...

* "What the heck is insurance anyway?" That was just one of the 15 workshops offered by Chicago-based CNA Insurance when hundreds of kids descend on its offices for a day in late April. In 1996, 700 children aged 9 to 18 arrived for the CNA Kids...

New England CVBs have teamed up to launch a new Internet service for corporate executives--MeetingPath, at www. meetingpath.com. Designed by the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau and MarketStream, LLC, and endorsed by the New England...

A new music licensing agreement has been reached between the music and meeting industries, simplifying the reporting process and reducing costs for meeting organizers...

Meetings will continue to fill conference centers in the coming years, but meeting participants will demand continuous contact with headquarters and affiliates all over the the world by e-mail...

MSI Insurance used to let its incentive rewards promote themselves. With offshore destinations like Hawaii, St. Thomas, and St. Maarten waiting at the end of its 12-month qualification period, agents didn't need reminders of where they were headed...

Then Ernie Tsouros, FLMI, CMP stood on the stage at the Budapest State Opera House last June, amid tables of Chubb Life agents and home office executives rising to their feet to cheer him, he got choked up. The evening was, he says simply, "the...

Say Orlando and what comes to mind? Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, Sea World, restaurants, shopping, golf, tennis, professional sports. Now, say culture. Did Orlando come to mind? If not, it will. Just as Las Vegas expanded...

Getting Started 1. Skip the phone tag and long-distance charges, and surf the Web. The major online service providers have travel forums with information about individual countries. Or, visit www.goeurope.com, a European travel Web site. You also...

How can I top myself next year? That's the refrain of incentive planners in a game of one-upmanship that's played out in insurance company marketing departments around the country. Judged against internal standards as well as those set by...