And The Winners Are... Meeting Professionals International gave top honors to a technology conference and a convention highlighting Canadian culture in its 1998 Global Paragon Awards competition. The winners were announced during MPI's...

Just Think If for five or six years in a row the same 10 or 15 people in a company have the same conversations about strategy in the same way, it's unlikely that new insights will emerge. Instead, we need conversations that cross the boundaries of...

Bermuda I've been lucky enough to visit Bermuda more than once and my spirit lifts each time the plane lands on this 21-square miles of paradise that's just a two-hour flight from most East Coast cities. But last December was the first time I...

Five businessmen stride across a stage to the sounds of city streets. They gather around a conference table, conduct precision-drill movements with their briefcases, and sit down to begin "The Meeting"--a 12-minute modern dance piece choreographed...

Thanks to a certain gap-toothed late night talk show host, if any question is now considered worth asking, it's considered worth answering 10 times...

Air Charter used to be viable for only the richest corporations. But today, meeting organizers are finding that air charter can be a cost-effective alternative to scheduled commercial flights...

Arlene Sheff, CMP, knows first-hand what it's like to be an executive secretary and have to spend much of her time organizing meetings. Now the president of her own meeting executive firm, Meetings Etc. in Irvine, Calif., she's often asked by...

NEW ASSOCIATION Group Promotes Employee Recognition Now there's an association for corporate executives charged with employee recognition. The new group, the National Association for Employee Recognition (NAER), provides forums for sharing methods...

ProAir: The Little Airline That Could With the cost of business fares reaching new heights, some companies are taking innovative steps to bring ticket prices back down to earth. An innovative way to control travel spending began nearly a year ago...

* In St. Thomas, Coral World has reopened following a $2 million refurbishment. The facility boasts a three-story observation tower, a circular tank with sharks and eels, and an underwater observatory...