How'd you like to get out of standing in line at the front desk to check in? If Symbol Technologies, Holtsville, N.Y., has anything to say about it, guests will soon be able to check into a Starwood Hotels property by having a bellman swipe your...

“I've had an awful experience,” a CME provider with a small organization called to tell me. When a pharmaceutical company — supposedly giving an unrestricted grant — didn't approve of her choice of speaker, they told her she was being unpleasant...

Meeting planners no longer have to worry about their attendees being zapped with an energy surcharge from your host hotel — if your hotel happens to be a Hilton or Hyatt, that is. The surcharge was instituted in some areas earlier this year to...

The Internet opens up new international promotional opportunities that were unimaginable 10 years ago...

The Caribbean site file in the July/August issue of MM should have listed the Paradisus Sol Meliá Resort in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, as opening in December 2002 as a single hotel.

At a roundtable of women leaders in the meetings industry, convened by our sister magazine Association Meetings at the 2001 annual conference of the American Society of Association executives, some of the most provocative discussion was not about...

Jamaica's solid hospitality infrastructure has long made it a popular Caribbean destination for meetings and incentive groups — and that infrastructure keeps getting stronger. Air Jamaica, which offers nonstop flights from many U.S. gateways...

Current products allow you to build a registration form in minutes — and match it to your Web site...

Every year, Gen-Probe Inc. takes its CEO, vice president of sales, national sales manager, and top six sales representatives and their spouses on a trip to someplace special, someplace where they can feel pampered — someplace with a spa...

The corporatization of health care, cost containment that often cuts patient services, resistant strains of microorganisms — there are a lot of issues in medicine that just aren't funny. That is, unless you're Greg LaGana, MD, an occupational...