TRY AS THEY MIGHT, even the most competent meeting planners can't control the weather on the day of their golf event. Nor can they keep executives from canceling a tournament when budgets get tight. And, even with a good group history, they can't...

CHICAGO EXPECTS TO HOST more than 15,000 attendees at this year's Motivation Show, to be held September 28 to 30 at McCormick Place Convention Center. The show is the world's largest exhibition on strategies and tactics for motivation in business...

OUR READERS WHO PLAN INCENTIVES often tell me what a hard time they have when they try to explain to people what they do for a living. Often, they just get a blank stare. Or people say they know someone who has been on “one of those incentive...

Who doesn't like to take a gamble now and then? Torrance, Calif. — based American Honda Corp.'s Spin Play promotion rewards salespeople who sell certain models with a chance to log onto a special Web site, where they play blackjack, roulette, and...

GOLF HAS BEEN TAKING some hits lately. First there was the research by the National Golf Foundation reporting that more than half of the golf facilities in the United States saw a decline in rounds played in 2003. Then, in a recent article on “the...

BRUCE BOLGER IS A MAN WITH A MISSION: to get people to finally understand incentives. Two years ago, Bolger, president of Selling Communications in Irvington, N.Y., and several incentive industry leaders, in conjunction with Northwestern...

Starwood is the latest hotel chain to get on the spa branding bandwagon. The Starwood Spa Collection consists of 30 elite spas around the globe, ranging from the Spa Gaucin at the St. Regis Monarch Beach in Dana Point, Calif., to the AltiraSpa at...

AS READERS OF THIS COLUMN will know, some of the most effective forms of recognition cost little or nothing at all. So it should come as no surprise that the most popular award at Total System Services, a subsidiary of financial services holding...

OCEAN EDGE RESORT, Brewster, Mass. There's no place like Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with its miles of dune-studded beaches and historic seaside towns. Sprawled out on 429 acres that includes 700 feet of beachfront along Cape Cod Bay, a PGA...

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