Amid the glorious setting of La Quinta Resort & Club — its whitewashed walls, terra-cotta roofs, and everblooming flowers vibrant under a deep-blue desert sky — a group of insurance conference planners and representatives of KSL Recreation...
You don't need a license to practice meeting planning. But seeking out and signing up for regular educational programs can be tremendously valuable for you and for your company — even if there isn't some state authority breathing down your neck...
U.S. companies with 100 or more employees spent a whopping $54 billion on training last year, according to projections in Training magazine's Industry Report 2000, released last fall...
Steve Heitzner has been appointed vice president of sales and marketing for Marriott Lodging, Western Region. His territory will include Oregon, California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Washington, and Alaska. He formerly was market director of resort...
THE LUCAS GROUP, an Atlanta-based recruitment firm, doesn't spend much time recruiting to fill its own positions. It doesn't have to. In the ultra-high-turnover field of professional recruitment, the Lucas Group (www.lucascareers.com) has earned a...
When you want to impress incentive winners or customers, there's nothing like taking over an entire resort. Everywhere attendees go on property, they run into people from the same company. You can rename rooms to reflect the theme of your event...
No stranger to big events, San Diego is the only city in the past decade to host this trio of big-time entertainment: the Super Bowl (1998), the World Series (1998), and a presidential convention (the Republicans, in 1996)...