Set in Austria's Tyrol region, amid breathtaking mountain scenery, Innsbruck is a town that can work beautifully for both meetings and incentives. Sited on the banks of the River Inn (Innsbruck means "Inn's bridge") and surrounded by the Tyrolean...
Evy Garcia speaks both Spanish and English fluently. But this summer she was working hard to add some German to her repertoire. Garcia, second vice president, advertising and international relations, for Pan-Am-erican Life Insurance Company, was...
AMERICAN HAWAII CRUISES Contact: Lori Purcell, vice president, field sales, (800) 933-9933, fax: (800) 933-4904 Ship:IndependencePassengers: 819 Meeting facilities: Rooms with theater-style seating include the Conference Center (accommodating 50)...
With the millennium so near I can't help but keep one eye on the future as that magic "2000" creeps into view. Nostradamus I'm not--but here are my predictions for the meetings industry...
What do you call a person who is part supplier, part meeting planner? John Potterton, CMP, director in charge of business development at Summit Executive Centre (previously the KPMG Center for Leadership Development) in Chicago, jokingly calls...
CONVENTION CENTERS AND BUREAUS Stephen B. Richer has been appointed executive director of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau in Gulfport, MS. Richer is the former president of the Atlantic City Convention and Visitors Bureau...
Companies spend $8.4 billion annually on incentive travel, according to a new study conducted by The Incentive Foundation, a coalition of leading associations, manufacturers, and suppliers in the premium and incentive field...
Continental Airlines (for the second consecutive year) and America West Airlines topped the latest J.D. Powers and Associates/Frequent Flyer magazine customer satisfaction survey, but neither airline showed up on the latest Zagat list of top ten...
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...