Meeting Planners are always looking for interesting destinations, many of which are featured in this magazine. I have an idea for your next meeting that is both exotic and historic: Visit the pyramids of Egypt for a rollicking good time...

It was morning in Madrid and the IFEMA Convention Center was alive with activity, occasioned by an art fair opening scheduled for that evening, with attendees to include such luminaries as Spain's King Juan Carlos and Mexican President Vicente Fox...

Courtesy of Lake Lawn Resort, Delavan, Wis., comes an opportunity for planners to have their names go down in history. In the resort's “Name the Suite” contest, planners send in design ideas for the hospitality suites that will be added as part of...

Just as tea rooms are popping up all over the place, the latest trend for groups is tea samplings...

When your organization needs to gain perspective on a situation and initiate change, a corporate retreat is the way to go. Unlike corporate meetings that aim to teach or motivate participants, or just deal with day-to-day priorities, the retreat...

When agents and brokers were asked by this magazine in past surveys what motivated them to qualify for incentive conferences, the No. 1 answer, year after year, was “an all-expenses paid vacation.” It follows that the prevailing wisdom about sales...

The FICP Summer Education Forum will sport a new look in 2006, with an upgraded education program suitable for all levels of meeting planners. The event, to be held at the Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, Ga., begins...

StarCite clients have a new site comparison tool — Meeting Estimator — to help them better calculate the cost of their meetings — and the cost of meeting in one destination versus another...

Meeting Professionals International's Professional Education Conference — Europe in Davos, Switzerland, March 26 to 28, marked the culmination of a year of growth for the association's European arm...

Meeting Professionals International has a new technology partner in Toronto-based Content Management Corp., which will deliver the association's professional development education on CD-ROM. CMC will record sessions that align with the 13 skill...