After a one-year hiatus, the famous Flatlanders Weekend returned to National Life of Vermont's Montpelier headquarters. This "reverse fam" is National Life's way of saying thank you to suppliers the company has worked with recently. Attendees stay...

* CHANGING FACES The Network Conference Co. has hired David W. Hayes as director of sales at The Hayes Mansion Conference Center in San Jose, Calif. Hayes was most recently director of national accounts at the Wigwam Resort in Arizona. The Network...

When it comes to training its consultants, Lotus Corp. takes a decidedly low-tech approach--one that favors children's toys and props over cutting-edge presentation technology...

Debra Kaufman, CMP, director of meetings and administration for Professional Insurance Marketing Association in Bethesda, Md., chose the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess for the company's annual conference in January 2000. "Our members like resort...

CONSIDER the figures: In 1980 only 60 hotels and resorts offered spa programs in the United States. During the 1980s, that figure doubled. By 1999, more than 400 hotels offered some form of on-site spa facility, according to Spa Finders, a company...

The value of meetings and events to organizations around the world has only one way to go: up. That's the word from the the Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress 2000, which drew 3,500 attendees to Los Angeles in July. MPI...

Log on to www.branders.com, select one of 4,000 products, drag and drop your logo onto it, and see what it looks like. Choosing a T-shirt? Drag your logo over (as an eps or jpeg file) and you can even check out the different looks offered by silk...

"It's been said that we start school with a question mark and end it with a period," says Barbara Glanz, president of Barbara Glanz Communications, Western Springs, Ill. Somewhere between school and adulthood, most people's curiosity is stifled...

My favorite journeys move forward from point "A" to some other letter. They rarely backtrack. In that regard, my incentive trips qualify as journeys-or perhaps, adventures. The two years I have attended the Informix Software incentive trip with my...

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