What's good enough for the Internal Revenue Service is good enough for New York State, or so it seems from the content of a late December internal memorandum by the New York State Insurance Department's (NYID) now-departed Superintendent Edward...

After last year's dramatic increase in airfares, meeting executives may be looking at the new year with less than great expectations. Yet many airline analysts expect fares to stabilize or decrease in 1997. "I think airfares overall reached a peak...

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...

The consolidation wave, building in the hotel industry for some time, hit the full-service sector with two mega-deals this winter. In late January, Hilton Hotels Corporation made a $6.5 billion hostile bid for ITT Sheraton, which quickly rejected...

With 2,035 rooms in 12 adjoining towers that re-create the New York skyline, it isn't easy to miss. New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas held its grand opening January 2. The megaproperty, which includes a Coney Island-style roller...

IF you think attendees are risk-averse and litigious when it comes to themselves, wait until you see how protective they are of their kids. You may already know. There's been a marked increase in the number of meeting attendees bringing kids along...

For the folks at Providian Agency Group, it was hard to reconcile the messages: On the one hand its agent demographics are solidly Bible-belt conservative, yet since the mid-1980s, meeting evaluation forms that asked agents where they wanted to go...

Calgary is putting in a bid to host the 2005 World's Fair, banking on its success in hosting the 1988 Winter Olympics. The year 2005 has special significance, since it marks Alberta's 100th birthday...

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...

Calgary is putting in a bid to host the 2005 World's Fair, banking on its success in hosting the 1988 Winter Olympics. The year 2005 has special significance, since it marks Alberta's 100th birthday...