Puerto Rico With its 279 miles of beaches, tropical landscape, and rich cultural heritage, Puerto Rico offers much to visitors. Ideally suited for meetings and incentives, the island has more than 12,000 hotel rooms, excellent transportation, and...

One word comes to mind when I think about the relationship between CVBs and corporations: partners. I know first-hand how helpful CVBs can be because Corporate Meetings & Incentives has developed partnerships with several over the past few...

The Lure of the Links GOLF BOOM AT INSURANCE MEETINGS Last year was the second-best year ever for golf course construction, with 448 new courses opening, according to the National Golf Foundation in Jupiter, Fla. (The record of 468 was set in 1995...

Keeping die-hard golfers focused in a seminar room at a golf resort is tough. At Saddlebrook Resort in Tampa, the Arnold Palmer Golf Academy brings a little golf right into the meeting room, with golf-themed coffee breaks and instructional...

The 25th anniversary of the Toyota Grand Prix in April was the perfect setting for a Corporate Meetings & Incentives Showcase familiarization trip, hosted by the Long Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau and numerous hotels and restaurants...

Anne Erickson, director of insurance sales at the Boca Raton (Fla.) Resort & Club, has added three properties to her sales responsibilities: the Registry Resort, Naples; Edgewater Beach Hotel, Naples; and the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix...

Have the answers to these questions ready before you call the golf director at your meeting resort. * What are your preferred course(s), date(s), and start time(s)...

HYATT, CONTINENTAL, AND TWA TOP LATEST CONSUMER SURVEYS Hyatt topped the list of upscale hotel chains in the J.D. Power and Associates 1999 Hotel Guest Satisfaction Study, closely followed by Marriott, Hilton and Wyndham (tied for third), and...

Bonnie Beattie, recently retired as manager, meetings and conventions, for Equitable Life of Iowa, has been spending a lot of time in the hospital. Not as a patient, but as one half of a team going from bed to bed, visiting people recovering from...

IACC ON TECH TRACK Though the opening of the 18th annual conference of the International Association of Conference Centers centered around a prehistoric theme (with the co-chairs dressed as Fred and Wilma Flintstone and speaking from the imaginary...