Meeting technology was at the forefront of the educational program at the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Professional Education Conference (PEC) in January. At an off-site TechLab, attendees used a variety of software packages...

The upcoming European Incentive & Business Travel & Meetings Exhibition, to be held May 13 to 15 at Geneva's Palexpo Exhibition Centre, will be a very different-and significantly larger-event from the first EIBTM in 1988. The 1988...

Revenues for the North American teleconferencing industry broke the $4 billion dollar mark in 1995, according to the International Teleconferencing Association (ITCA), and were expected to reach $4.9 billion in 1996. ITCA says videoconferencing...

Many places in Israel are as geographically significant as they are historically compelling. South of Jerusalem, for example, is the Dead Sea, some 1,300 feet below sea level-the lowest place on earth. Its salt concentration (ten times that of...

The sun's not up at 5:30 a.m., but golf-ers are. On a brisk Orlando morning early last December, incentive travel suppliers and clients boarded buses in the morning twilight at Disney's Boardwalk Resort, heading off for the first full day of the...

Newport, RI, renowned as the summer home of the turn-of-the-century elite, continues to draw visitors to its historic mansions and yacht-filled harbor. In May, the town's 1909 Vanderbilt Hall becomes a 50-room "mansion house" hotel. The property...

Flying into Shannon International Airport, visitors look down on a patchwork quilt in countless shades of green. The Shannon Region's County Clare in the west of Ireland has a wild, expansive landscape dotted with castles, craggy cliffs, and...

Are you a chummy dealmaker like Captain Kirk or a logical administrator like First Officer Spock? (Non-Trekkies, stay with us for a minute.) Do you make meeting buying decisions based on relationships, on how you feel about the job a particular...

Dallas-based Patriot American Hospitality has acquired Carefree Resorts for $210 million. Patriot American owns more than 40 upscale hotels; Phoenix-based Carefree is made up of five exclusive resorts: The Boulders in Carefree, AZ; The Peaks...

THE demise of the slide show has been forecast for more than a decade, yet it remains one of the most effective presentation mediums in the meetings industry. I suspect it will be for a long time to come. Slides are cost-effective to create and...