PlanSoft's completely redesigned meeting planning Web site has a new address: www.mpoint.com. The updated site is one of a host of products from Cleveland, Ohio-based PlanSoft Corp. that are in "advanced stages of development," says Ed Tromczynski...
Know who won the World Series in 1929? If you're a Mutual of Omaha agent, you probably do. Every year, the company runs a three-month Baseball Contest to boost summer sales. The prize? A trip to two World Series games. So what does that have to do...
Our team of editors walked the floor at the 28th Annual Incentive Travel & Meeting Executives Show, held in Chicago in October. Here's a sampling of what we found new and noteworthy...
* CHANGINGFACES John Jeakins has been named vice president, Asia, for Swissotel Hotels & Resorts, with responsibility for Swissotel Beijing, Swissotel Dalian, and the company's global sales offices in Hong Kong and Tokyo...
* Diane Devine has been promoted to global account manager, insurance sales, for Starwood Hotels & Resorts. She'll continue to be based in Starwood's New York global sales office, where she was previously sales coordinator...
Hotel Guanahani Once you weather the short, white-knuckle flight from St. Maarten to St. Barthelemy--the small, chartered plane slipping through a narrow gap between two mountains to ease itself onto the runway and stopping just short of the...
Announcing its third Opryland development outside Nashville, Gaylord Entertainment Co. unveiled plans for a 2,000-room destination hotel and convention center in Prince Georges County, Md. The Opryland Hotel Potomac, which is slated to offer 400...
PLANSOFT RENAMES SITE, LAUNCHES NEW MEETING PRODUCT PlanSoft's completely redesigned meeting planning Web site has a new address: www.mpoint.com. The updated site is one of a host of products from Cleveland, Ohio-based PlanSoft Corp. that are in ...