The most popular of the neighbor islands for visitors, Maui is a true gem with its 120 miles of beaches, picture-perfect waterfalls, verdant jungles, and the daunting presence of Haleakala, an extinct volcano that rises up more than 10,000 feet...
AT 4 p.m. on the day Linda Bourbonnie fully expected to be laid off-Friday the 13th, no less-she got called into the office of the president of marketing and told that she wasn't going anywhere...
Add this to your paperless, virtual office: the FaxView Personal Fax Reader. This 7.8-ounce gadget (on facing page, top) can receive a fax or e-mail anywhere there's a telephone line or a cellular phone. Once the fax comes in, just peer into the...
Consortiums are "white hot" outside the travel industry, but they may soon be heating up among companies that purchase airline and hotel space, according to Kevin Mitchell, president of Business Travel Contractors Corp. (BTCC), a "strategic buying...
Motivating nonsales employees was one focus of the 1996 Society of Incentive & Travel Executives (SITE) International Conference, which drew 397 members and guests to Vienna in November. In an address to the group, Dr. Lawrence Watson of Hay...
Affectionately dubbed the "Garden Isle," Kauai offers a peaceful escape from everyday life with abundant natural beauty. The northernmost of the Hawaiian islands, Kauai is actually the top of an undersea volcano. Mountainous and lush, the island...
Acknowledging the increasing globalization of its membership-only 45 percent are now in the U.S.-The Society of Incentive & Travel Executives (SITE) this year will hold regional University of Incentive Travel programs in its two most populous...
This is where it's all happening. Despite the meetings and the other activities, all the teambuilding is going on right here," said Al Bolea, asset manager at BP Exploration in Anchorage, AK, to Dore Liston, the administrative assistant who...
Business can sometimes feel like combat, so who better to train managers than a team of Gulf War fighter pilots? The Afterburner Seminars program, established two years ago, applies the strategies behind military fighter pilot training to business...
