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Of the many reasons Americans take meetings and incentives overseas, one of them is to give attendees the cache of having traveled to distant lands. At the same time, they don't want the destination to be too exotic. Australia is made for them...

Healthcare Organizations The Board of Governors of the American College of Health Care Administrators in Alexandria, VA, has named Karen S. Tucker, CAE, as executive vice president. Tucker had served as first deputy/deputy executive director...

New Orleans was a little on the cool side at the end of January, but the Hyatt Regency-vacated just the day before by the National Football League-was hot with the friction that comes when new ideas are tossed back and forth. Much, though not all...

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IF you think attendees are risk-averse and litigious when it comes to themselves, wait until you see how protective they are of their kids. You may already know. There's been a marked increase in the number of meeting attendees bringing kids along...

The Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Professional Education Conference, held in January in San Francisco, was the largest in the conference's 20-year history, attracting 2,054 attendees. This year's meeting broke the 1994 record of 1,731...

UltraRes, the new automated reservations system launched by The Hotel Industry Switch Company (THISCO), received a major boost recently when the International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus (IACVB) endorsed the product as a...

Maybe it's the weather (300 days of sunshine a year), or the lifestyle and reasonable cost of living. Whatever the reason, desert communities in Nevada, Arizona, and California have become favorite places for business development, residential...

The upcoming European Incentive & Business Travel & Meetings Exhibition, to be held May 13 to 15 at Geneva's Palexpo Exhibition Centre, will be a very different-and significantly larger-event from the first EIBTM in 1988...