Unless you are part of the armed services, you might never have heard of insurance company USAA, based in San Antonio. Its customers are military personnel and their families. The company ranks 189th on the Fortune 500 list, with revenues of just...

Unite Here launched a new organization that provides information to meeting planners on union-friendly hotels, labor disputes, and other issues that could impact site selection decisions...

When it comes time to line up speakers for your conference, do you find yourself buried in piles of prospectuses from potential presenters, or searching high and low for someone qualified to address your topics? Mike May, principal of The Acorn...

“Meeting/convention planner” placed 39th on Money magazine's list of the 50 best jobs in America (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/top50). Along with Salary.com, Money ranked professions based on job growth rate, stress levels...

With the help of a cartoon character named “Piney,” the Rapid City (S.D.) Convention & Visitors Bureau hopes to attract more people to the destination for meetings — namely, kids...

“We kind of look at it as teambuilding, family-style.” ...

Yanks are direct when it comes to business. Friendly and cordial at the outset of a meeting, they are quick to get down to work — a style that some European counterparts can find disconcerting. Brits, on the other hand, prefer a “don't rock the...

Brenda Anderson, CEO of the Society of Incentive and Travel Executives, has written her first book, Playing the Quantum Field: How Changing Your Choices Can Change Your Life (2006, New World Library). The book is an exploration of the power of the...

As U.S. meeting and incentive planners scout for meeting rooms and hotel blocks that can accommodate their events in today's seller's market, they're more often looking beyond our borders to source those programs. It's not only because meetings...