In the year 2000, there were six security initiatives issued for air travel. From September 11, 2001, to January 2002, airlines were given 70 new security initiatives...
Following a survey of its members' emergency procedures, the International Association of Conference Centers recently issued a 55-page preliminary white paper on this timely subject. The paper is the product of IACC's recently formed Emergency...
There's been so much buzz about business travel cutbacks and the challenges of flying after September 11 that it's natural to assume your top producers may be reluctant to travel. Not true, according to the more than 300 producers who filled out...
The ballots are in for the first-ever Golden Links Best of Corporate Golf Award, chosen by the readers of Insurance Conference Planner and our sister magazine, Corporate Meetings & Incentives...
Think back to where your first great ideas came from: creativity fueled by play. This was a childlike, fanciful kind of play. What our consulting firm brings to companies is the notion of strategic play, with the goal of allowing creativity and...
Quality, as opposed to quantity, may best describe Meeting Professionals International's Professional Education Conference held January 20 to 22 in Honolulu. The quality was found in three days of seminars addressing changes in the meeting...
Writer Bob Andelman called me from his car during his assignment covering Harley-Davidson's planning meeting in the Florida Keys in January. “You won't believe where I am right now: blasting down the Ronald Reagan Turnpike with 120 bikers!” he...
Planners are now in control when it comes to cancellation and attrition clauses Planners and hoteliers may have forgotten what a buyer's market is like. And anybody who has been in the industry less than, say, 10 years, has seen things only one...
