* www.iacconline.com The International Association of Conference Centers has enhanced its Web site. In addition to a searchable database of 300 IACC member centers worldwide, visitors can consult the "virtual concierge." This feature offers links...
The Certified Incentive Travel Executive (CITE) designation is the industry's highest honor, awarded to SITE members who have exhibited an outstanding knowledge in all aspects of the incentive travel industry. The process is lengthy, often taking...
Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide has negotiated the management of the new hotel/residential tower being built at the Wall Centre in Vancouver for its Sheraton brand. The 45-story tower is scheduled to open in the spring of 2000. The Wall...
BOB VITAGLIANO, CITE, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF SITE SINCE 1993, began his travel incentive career as a corporate buyer for SCM Corp. in New York City. He moved to the supplier side of incentive travel in 1981 at Dittman Incentive Marketing in...
After a one-year hiatus while National Life of Vermont went through an extreme cost-cutting initiative in an effort to stay independent and stay in Montpelier, Flatlanders Weekend, the industry's only "reverse fam," returned in September...
Since prehistoric times Mexico has been the site of important assemblies of indigenous peoples. They gathered in such awe-inspiring locations as Teotihuacan, Xochicalco, and Chichen Itza to exchange ideas and receive inspiration from their gods...
You'd never peg this as a shareholder's meeting, but it's obvious you're in Vermont. Nearly everyone in the crowd is wearing shorts and faded T-shirts. Many of the men sport a combination of bald spots and beards, and even more of the women aren't...
In December of 1973, a small group of professionals in an emerging field known as "incentive travel" convened at the Americana Hotel in New York. Their goal: to form an international, professional, not-for-profit association dedicated to the...