From desert spas to Disneyland, Southern California provides insurance executives with a range of activities for their groups. Year-round warm weather means attendees can always hit the golf courses. The Palm Springs area alone has more than 90...
The sun's not up at 5:30 a.m., but golf-ers are. On a brisk Orlando morning early last December, incentive travel suppliers and clients boarded buses in the morning twilight at Disney's Boardwalk Resort, heading off for the first full day of the...
Beach Olympics are for sissies. How about the real thing? The Winter Olympic Challenge Program in Lake Placid, NY opens up the venues of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics, offering even novice winter athletes a chance to try bobsledding, luge...
In London's West End, The Savoy Group's stately Claridge's hotel added a suite of meeting rooms and a fitness center on its sixth floor. Combined, the four new meeting rooms accommodate 150 persons...
Focus, exhilaration, intensity: Adventure is the driving force behind the fastest-growing segment of the national travel market. And the adrenaline rush that Baby Boom professionals demand from their leisure-time activities is growing as an...
Few destinations on earth heap so much history into such a small space as does Israel. The roots of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam can be traced to a few holy spots on this country's map, places that have stood witness to both triumph and...
Picking an adventure travel outfitter can be its own adventure, says David Sakowski, a senior staff engineer for Lockheed and a licensed California guide. He's been hiring outfitters for more than a decade and suggests five characteristics to look...
Change is still the topic of the day in corporate America-in the insurance industry as much as anywhere. Faced with new and increasing competition, insurers that don't ride the waves of change may find themselves dead in the water...
There's nothing like a Ritz-Carlton for holding meetings, according to the first-ever survey of meeting professionals done by J.D. Power and Associates. When asked which hotels do the best job with their meetings, the majority of the 2,600 survey...
Foreign and domestic visitors spent a record $30.8 billion in Canada in 1995, according to a report released late last year by the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC). This represents a $2.06 billion increase over 1994. With 2.97 percent of the...