Forget planning meetings and start creating experiences. James Gilmore and Joseph Pine have the business world abuzz over their new book, The Experience Economy: Work is Theatre & Every Business a Stage. (Harvard Business School Press, 1999)...

A checklist for your international attendees Now is the best time for attendees preparing for international meetings and incentives to apply for or renew their passports, visas, and overseas driver's licenses. Since fewer people apply for such...

With more than 20 years of experience as a corporate event manager, Ed Simeone, CMP, Meeting Professionals International's 1999-2000 chairman of the board, has a broad perspective on the meeting industry. He's also accustomed to change, having...

Perhaps the best way to begin a guide to cruising is to define the difference between a ship and a boat. Roughly speaking, if a vessel sails on fresh water (lakes and rivers), it's a boat; if it sails on salt water (oceans or seas), it's...

CHANGING FACES Brian Jones has been appointed to the new position of vice president, national sales offices for Loews Hotels. Jones will be based in New York City and will oversee the company's national sales offices in New York, Washington...

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The only thing good about the past is your mother." Taking gleeful swipes at his own generation, the hotel industry, U.S. airlines, the Y2K hoopla, and anyone who isn't fully plugged in, Darryl Hartley-Leonard, chairman and CEO of Arlington, Va...

I'm convinced that every employee has at least one $50,000 idea on the tip of his or her tongue. Yet most companies do little, if anything, to solicit those ideas. If they do decide to take action, it's often in the form of a "Suggestion" box...

The Tropicana offers complete meeting and conference facilities set in Atlantic City, an exciting gaming/hospitality resort destination. The luxurious guest accommodations and superstar entertainment create a total resort experience...

Scott Flexman has been named director of sales and marketing for Sierra Lodging, overseeing its three Orlando properties: Caribe Royale Resort Suites & Villas; Buena Vista Suites; and the new Orlando Grande hotel, opening in 2003. He had been...