AT ICPA'S 2004 Annual Meeting in November, Debbie Boschee, CMP, Prudential Financial, passed the president's gavel to John Touchette, CMP, John Hancock Financial Services. Two new Board members were elected: Sharon Chapman, CMP, CMM, Berkshire...

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IF YOU COULD BE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, WHERE WOULD YOU BE? Enjoying a glass of wine with friends at Ristorante Tre Scalini in Rome's Piazza Navona. WHAT'S SPINNING ON YOUR CD PLAYER? Barcelona Nights by Ottmar Liebert IT'S TIME FOR A SECOND...

As if it weren't exciting enough to earn her company's Chairman's Award, Janice Clerkin felt her heart jump when the company president announced her prize: a two-year lease of a new BMW...

LANDS' END, the Wisconsin-based clothing and merchandise catalog and Internet re- tailer, keeps employees excited throughout the year with activities and celebrations, all designed around a theme. Last year's was Going for the Gold; here's some of...

According to recent research from PKF Hospitality Research, Atlanta, and Torto Wheaton Research, Boston, hotel room rates are not just on the way up, they're skyrocketing. While average daily rates slipped 6.4 percent from 2000 to 2003, the top 50...

2004 WAS A STRONG YEAR for insurance and financial services meetings, according to the results of our biennial reader survey of ICPA planners. The average yearly incentive program budget grew to just over $3 million, up more than $1 million from...

At a December breakfast meeting in Beijing's Peninsula Palace Hotel with representatives from American and Asian travel and meetings press, Simon Cooper, President and COO of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. LLC, announced several new initiatives for...

IN ONE OF the most emotional moments of ICPA's 2004 Annual Meeting, Colin Hanlon, executive director of the Boys & Girls Club of Maui, accepted a check from ICPA in the amount of $32,000 that was raised by a silent auction. Auction items...

I'll never forget snorkeling among the Hawaiian green sea turtles right off the beach at the Fairmont Orchid. The turtles — called honu in Hawaiian — also crawl ashore to a protected area at the resort for serious afternoon sunning. Their home...