The Halifax Nova Scotian Hotel (formerly Hilton International) has been purchased for $4.5 million by New Castle Hotels, a hotel ownership and management company based in Shelton, CT. The property, franchised by Westin Hotels & Resorts...

* Marriott Hotels, Resorts and Suites recently named its first corporate director of convention and meeting services. He's Sam Bonfe, formerly the senior director of catering standards for Marriott International in Washington, DC. Still based in...

Well-known among divers for its reef and aqua waters, Curacao is also a sophisticated commercial center, thanks to its strategic location between North and South America and a harbor that is the fourth-largest port in the world. Now this beautiful...

* http://www.ojairesort.com-When the Ojai Valley Inn in Ojai, CA launched its Web site earlier this year, the goal was to make it a friendly place. To that end, virtual visitors can e-mail the Inn's general manager, Thad Hyland, who personally...

Fueled by a building wave, Las Vegas is taking off. With the openings of Stratosphere, Monte Carlo, and New York-New York, gamblers, conventioneers, vacationers, incentive winners, and everyone else who rolls into this southern Nevada mecca will...

The October 15 to 17 Motivation Show-which is made up of the 24th Incentive Travel & Meeting Executives Show (IT&ME) and the 63rd National Premium/Incentive Show-takes over McCormick Place North in Chicago again this fall. For information...

Incentive travel programs remain an important business tool even in companies where sales are sluggish and less-traditional incentives (individual incentives, as well as programs for nonsales employees and teams) are on the rise, according to the...

Sure, the Kingsmill Resort in Wil-liamsburg, VA has three championship golf courses plus a nine- hole, par-three course (free for guests); and, yes, it is home to the annual Michelob Championship at Kingsmill (formerly the Anheuser-Busch Classic)...

Tax Hike Hotel room taxes in San Francisco jumped two percent on July 1 bringing it to 14 percent. The new monies will repay a lease revenue bond issued by the city to build a 300,000 square foot addition to the Moscone Convention Center Complex...

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...