As the new year begins, most people develop a list of New Year's resolutions to try to break bad habits. So I thought I would create a list of a few meeting planning-related resolutions that you may want to consider...

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Few gifts are more universal than food and wine — and few are less personal. But not if you etch the wine labels or include your own company message...

From the architects of the Paris Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas comes Barona Valley Ranch, in the Barona Indian Reservation in northeastern San Diego County. The 364-room resort, which opens this month, plans to raise the bar when it comes to...

On page 78 of our October issue, we incorrectly identified Iguaca Falls as being in Panama. Iguaca Falls is in Parana, Brazil.

JASON JOHNSON, director of sales and marketing, The Coeur d'Alene Resort, Idaho, and Julie Stovroff, regional vice president of sales, Hinton & Grusich, hosted a pre-ICPA fam in early November at The Coeur d'Alene Resort in Coeur d'Alene...

Even in a time of relative austerity, luxury cruising remains a popular incentive reward. “Companies are still using luxury ships for incentive programs,” says Tanya Barnette, director of charter and incentive sales for Seabourn Cruises. Seabourn...

I RECENTLY HAD the opportunity to emcee the annual meeting of the Insurance Conference Planners Association in Seattle and got to meet many of you. For those of you who did not make it to the conference, let me just say that you missed a lot. Here...

Never before has the incentive supplier-buyer relationship been challenged more, according to members of a panel at SITE University, held December 8 to 12 in Miami Beach by the Society of Incentive Travel Executives. The panel, moderated by Bruce...

THE HISTORY OF online incentive program management is not a long one. In the mid-1990s, pioneers began hammering together Web sites where participants could read contest rules, view their qualification progress, search online merchandise catalogs...