1998 Paragon Awards Corporate Meetings & Incentives announces the winners of its 1998 Paragon Awards. We have asked our readers to choose the hotels, resorts, and conference centers that did the best job of handling their meetings and...
Like other meeting industry organizations, the Insurance Conference Planners Association (ICPA) has approved a code of ethics for members. "We took the association's original mission statement and revised it," says ICPA President Dale Huff, vice...
Addressing an audience at Microsoft's Press Center in Redmond, WA, in November, as well as reporters linked in by phone and computer, Dan Weadock, president and CEO, ITT Sheraton, along with executives from 3Com, Asia Connect, Tandem, and...
The Ihilani Resort & Spa in Kapolei, HI, has named Darren Green national sales manger. Green, who will focus on the insurance market, previously served as national sales manger at the Hilton Waikoloa Village in Kamuela, HI...
During an October familiarization tour of Portland, OR, and Seattle area properties sponsored by Doubletree Hotels Corporation, meeting executives came together with Doubletree management for a roundtable discussion. Doubletree execs were looking...
Once the Grand Dame of Madison Avenue, the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City reopened in June, offering 1,040 rooms and 28,000 square feet of meeting space, including a three-tiered Grand Ballroom. The new owner, the Pakistani government, spent $65...
Our third exclusive Agent Preference Survey offers agent input on the most important incentive program decisions you make: where to go and what to do when you get there...
A four-week spring sales campaign is a 45-year tradition at Farm Bureau Life in West Des Moines, IA, but there's nothing traditional about the way they go about it. And this year, the campaign got its muscle from a band of superhuman agents...
Strong and steady--those two words best sum up our readers' use of incentives in 1997 and their plans for the coming year. A vast majority of respondents (73%) said they held the same number of incentive trips in 1997 as in 1996, and the exact...
You've probably heard of back-to-back meetings, where a company brings two groups to a destination, one right on the heels of another. Auto-Owners Insurance Company took that concept to the extreme last fall when it held an astounding 20 back-to...
