The Beyond Borders Conference will be back for its third year, April 5 and 6 at the New York Hilton. Designed to give planning essentials to those new to holding meetings and incentives outside the U.S., the Beyond Borders Conference also has...
The story of meetings at Colum-bus Life Insurance Co. in Cin-cinnati is a story of continuity. There are general agents and agents qualifying for the National Convention who attended the meeting when they were kids. There are teenagers at the...
What is the greatest change you've faced in the past year? Tracey Lane manages 400 meetings a year--all with an average turnaround time of two months. On top of that, she has had to contend with the seller's market...
Ruggers,Packers, andRaccoons Rugby is a tough-guy sport. Rugby players don't wear helmets. They don't wear pads. You've seen the bumper sticker, right? "Give blood, play rugby." Chuck Lane discovered the game in 1963 and he's been giving blood...
It seems as if everything is going digital these days. Digital audio, digital graphics, digital photography, digital cellular phones, even digital video. What's the big deal? For that matter, what is digital...
"All of our programs offer our dealers a choice of ways to qualify.This fall, I took 205 people to Paris for four days, then 'chunneled' them through the Channel Tunnel to London for two nights. To earn that trip, dealers could either buy a...
"In the past, we've generally done two incentive trips a year. But 1998 wasn't typical. We were going to do one trip, and we postponed it to April of '99. That's a reflection of the downturn in the entire semiconductor industry, which is very...
Caesars Atlantic City The newly expanded Caesars Atlantic City feels more like being in ancient Rome than on the Jersey shore: the hotel's spectacular six-story atrium lobby was designed to look like the Forum of ancient Rome...
"What people conjure up to be Hawaii is really Maui," says Barry Tomlinson, meetings executive from Optimum Travel in Montreal. With its swaying palm trees, warm waters, and tropical appearance, Maui symbolizes the best of the Hawaiian Islands...
