Anyone remember the good ol' days? $49 room rates in season in Florida, a handshake agreement on room pickup, comps that weren't part of the yield-management formula, and least but not last, no charges for meeting rooms...
Uniting the employees of newly merged insurance companies often falls to meeting and marketing executives. They must create events that accomplish the slippery goal of getting two companies to work together as a new whole. Chez-zam Entertainment...
SEC Ruling INSURER INCENTIVES RESTRICTED As of January 1, 1999, insurance companies are banned from announcing new incentive contests based on the sale of variable products. The Securities and Exchange Commission decision that put this ban into...
Eric McDonald, director of the meeting department at Parke-Davis, Morris Plains, N.J., estimates that his company spends $30 million each year on the several hundred meetings it holds. But he has never had a detailed picture of the company's...
I don't know which is more remarkable, the fact that more than one in three respondents to our 1998 Reader Survey said their companies had acquired a company during the past two years, or that they reported a median incentive budget that has...
Emerald green against the sapphire sea, the small round island of Kauai almost shocks you with the intensity of its colors. As home to Mount Waialeale, the dormant volcano known as "the wettest spot on earth," it has grown a deep forest canopy...
Larry Alexander is the new president and CEO of the Metropolitan Detroit Convention & Visitors Bureau. Formerly managing director of the Westin Hotel in Detroit, Alexander succeeds Rick Binford, who resigned in October...
Your palms are sweating, the lights are hot and bright, your thoughts seem to be sucked from your brain. Is this an alien abduction? No, just time for you to appear in your company video. Well, take a deep breath. Dallas-based consultant Mark...
Nationwide: The Meeting Specialists It's noon, and Jodi Woerner has been on the phone since 9 a.m. negotiating a hotel contract for an incentive meeting. For some time now, she's been talking about whether or not children under four will be able...
