Travel still reigns as the motivator of choice for corporate America, according to a fall 2001 survey of corporate sales, marketing, and meeting executives. More than two out of three of the 339 survey respondents run at least one group incentive...

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Face-to-face events are suffering horrendous losses in attendance. As of mid-November, turnout in general was 10 percent to 50 percent below last year. This is devastating for event organizers as well as their decorators, AV firms, hotels...

Personal digital assistants sure are fun. Take the Handspring Visor, which comes with a module-adding system called Springboard that will turn your PDA into a telephone, a Gameboy, or a global positioning system. Now, thanks to the resourceful...

The big got bigger in November, as meeting, event, and incentive travel management titan Maritz Travel Co. acquired what Maritz president and CEO Jeffrey Reinberg called his firm's “top quality” competitor, McGettigan Partners...

In the days after September 11, New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center got a lot of network news visibility it obviously would rather not have had. On September 12, the building was commandeered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and...

After orchestrating a conference, it's hard to know if you're coming or going, let alone figure out who's in all the meeting photographs. Is that the CEO in the flowerpot hat? New York-based ImageID has a high-tech photography solution called...

Since 1987, The Catchpole Corp, based in Wellesley, Mass., has been a leader in the little-known business of speaker program management, matching corporate executives seeking visibility with conferences seeking speakers. Now Catchpole has taken...

Think of the classic scene from Star Wars in which the robot R2-D2 projects the shimmering holographic image of Princess Leia onto the floor of Luke Skywalker's garage. It is as if she is in the room with him, though only 6 inches tall...

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