For Bonnie Wallace, this special recipe has taken her around the world. But she didn't become a Pampered Chef kitchen consultant to earn trips. She did it out of financial necessity. With her husband leaving the Navy and heading for law school...
How can anyone predict the impact the war on terrorism will have on meetings and business travel? “It's like trying to gaze into a crystal ball while it's rolling,” was how Laurie Armstrong, spokesperson for the San Francisco Convention &...
Through the years, Allen Konopacki, a well-respected trade show consultant and convention industry researcher, has seen the industry rebound from recessions and depressions, hurricanes and earthquakes, even wars. Corporate Meetings &...
The National Business Travel Association Web site (www.nbta.org) lists traveler security tips in light of 9/11, which can be helpful information to e-mail or print out for your attendees. Magellan's (www.magellans.com) offers online travel...
Our company, like many, is in the process of belt tightening. In reducing our workforce, one of the good people we lost was the media coordinator for my large incentive conferences. Faced with finding the best way to replace him, I am making a...
At the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau, Ann Wubbena has been named director, Northeast region sales. She will be responsible for sales in New England and New York state. Previously, Wubbena was director of sales for the Puerto Rico...
Meeting at the elegant Four Seasons Resort Aviara north of San Diego, a group of insurance conference planners and Four Seasons representatives — including June Locke, national insurance sales manager, and Thomas Hubler, vice president sales...