For most of this century, tiny Lanai was known as Pineapple Island and was the private domain of the Dole Food Company, which used its 18,000 acres to lead the world in production of the sweet fruit. Dole still owns much of the island, but has...

Audience response keypads aren't a new idea: Attendees are each given a small keypad with which they answer questions. They can pick yes or no, or punch in a number that correlates to choices of answers. The audience's choices are tabulated by an...

For the fifth summer, Lynette Owens & Associates (LOA), a hotel marketing firm based in Rancho La Costa, CA, brought together a group of senior insurance executives and hoteliers for the annual LOA Insurance Advisory Board Meeting...

Add this to your paperless, virtual office: the FaxView Personal Fax Reader. This 7.8-ounce gadget (on facing page, top) can receive a fax or e-mail anywhere there's a telephone line or a cellular phone. Once the fax comes in, just peer into the...

The Motivation Show-the combined 24th Incentive Travel & Marketing Executives Show (IT&ME) and 63rd National Premium/Incentive Show-attracted record turnout to Chicago's McCor-mick Place in October...

Audience response keypads aren't a new idea: Attendees are each given a small keypad with which to answer questions. They can pick yes or no, or punch in a number that correlates to choices of answers, usually projected on a screen. The audience's...

Wrap your mind around this one: a telephone system that screens and routes incoming calls according to your (verbal) instructions, places outgoing calls by your voice command, stores your telephone contact list, and reminds you of upcoming...

When Kitty Ratcliffe became president of Meeting Professionals International (MPI), she promised the 14,000-plus members of the organization that she would keep them "ahead of the curve." Now serving her term, the 13-year hospitality industry...

Destination management companies are the creative backbone of the meetings industry. More than just the people who see to it that the buses arrive and leave on time, they are the specialists behind the sunset dinners in the desert-the events you...

R.J. (Jim) Henderson has been promoted to vice president of sales and marketing at the Anchorage (AK) Convention & Visitors Bureau. He had been director of convention sales...