Hong Kong:"Committed to Meetings and Incentives" Having worked together with their Chinese counterparts since 1993, tourism officials from Hong Kong sailed smoothly through the former British colony's handover to China in July. If anything, says...
Convention Bureaus Yulita Osuba has joined the Tampa (FL) Convention Center as marketing manager. She had been director of convention center sales for the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, FL...
* The Croatian National Tourist Office in the U.S. has announced that Croatia will no longer require entry visas for visitors from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. There has been a 33 percent increase in tourism over...
Two thirds of the affiliates in the Mr. Meeting Network conducted 1,139 events in 1996--an estimated $31 million in billings--according to John E. Kelly, founder and president of the Jenkintown, PA-based organization. (The final third had not...
Lynette Owens & Associates (LOA) is taking advantage of new communications technologies to provide up-to-date information to its hotel and insurance clients. The a nine-year-old, Rancho La Costa-based hotel marketing and respresentation firm...
PlanSoft's site-selection and contact engine is up and running at www.plansoft.com. Membership is free to planners. In barely two months of operation, the PlanSoft site has registered more than 250 members, says Edward J. Tromczynski, PlanSoft...
Brand New Marcus Hotels and Resorts opens its newest property, the Miramont Resort in Indian Wells, CA, in November. The 11-acre, Mediterranean-style resort will have 226 rooms, including 60 suites, and 10,000 square feet of meeting space. A golf...
In the heart of Boston's new Seaport District, the latest phase in the revitalization of Boston's waterfront is the construction of the Seaport Hotel and Conference Center, scheduled to open next May. The 427-room, 16-story hotel was designed with...
