Incentive/IMRA Sales Excellence Awards Winners Announced Incentive magazine announced the winners of its 15th annual Sales Excellence Awards earlier this week, celebrating the best and most successful independent representative firms in the industry.
U.S. Travel Association Forms Meetings, Incentives, Trade Show Council The U.S. Travel Association has created a new board member council that will build a proactive meetings and incentives research, communications, government relations and promotion agenda, it announced yesterday.
President Signs Travel Promotion Act President Barack Obama today signed the Travel Promotion Act into law, creating the public-private Corporation for Travel Promotion tasked with marketing America as a tourism destination around the globe.
Mad Science 8: Wellness Incentive Programs Lack Scope In their eighth collaborative article, Incentive columnists Ley Borlo (Mad About Incentives) and Joshua Klapow (Science Behind Incentives) note wellness incentive programs target only a few of many medical decisions that can be incentivized to enlarge program scale and improve program effectiveness.
Give Back, Get Back: Responsible, Sustainable Capitalism Harris Rosen, president and COO of Rosen Hotels & Resorts, was involved in philanthropy and corporate social responsibility before they became fashionable. His long career has been accompanied by countless awards for good works.
Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort & Spa Opens Incentive and meeting planners looking for a beach retreat on Florida’s West Coast have a new resort to consider—The Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort and Spa. The 250-room all-suite property opened last month as part of the $30 million Beach Walk development.
President Signs Travel Promotion Act President Barack Obama today signed the Travel Promotion Act into law, creating the public-private Corporation for Travel Promotion tasked with marketing America as a tourism destination around the globe.
Incentive and Meeting Deals Spotlight: Singapore Singapore's big new casino resorts have been hot hospitality news items for the island nation. However several established properties not part of the new developments are offering meetings and incentive packages that provide good value for groups heading to Singapore in 2010.
Incentive/IMRA Sales Excellence Awards Winners Announced Incentive magazine announced the winners of its 15th annual Sales Excellence Awards earlier this week, celebrating the best and most successful independent representative firms in the industry.
HDTV on the Go With New Philips 9-Inch Portable Set Give top performers the chance to enjoy key sporting events, favorite television programs and movies anytime, anywhere, when you add the new Philips 9-inch Portable Digital TV with built-in HDTV tuner to your incentive merchandise program.
Westin Hotels Launches Wellness Store on Amazon.com, Offers Gift Card Westin Hotels & Resorts increased its merchandise retail presence this week with the launch on March 1 of its wellness store on Amazon.com and is offering a $100 Amazon.com gift card for Westin guests who stay twice mid-week from now through May 13, 2010.
These Awards Are Crystal-Clear Motivators If you’re in the market for fine crystal for employee service or other recognition awards, and you’re thinking, “Been there, done that,” well, think again.
Top 10 Gift Cards Desired by Consumers The Global Prepaid Exchange released its Gift Card Performance Index which lists the Top 10 gift cards desired by American consumers, with Bath & Body Works coming out as the No. 1 choice. Find out which other retailers made the list.
CashStar Launches B2B eCorporate Incentives Product, National Gift Card Corp. Partnership At the PrePaid Expo in Las Vegas today, CashStar, the Portland, ME–based digital gifting and incentives company, launched eCorporate Incentives, its new B2B product that enables companies to bulk order personalized digital gift cards that can be sent immediately to recipients via e-mail from retailers using CashStar software, and announced a new partnership with National Gift Card Corporation.
Four Seasons Hotels Launches Incentive Gift Card Luxury lodging company Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts has introduced “Unforgettable Experience,” a new individual incentive gift card to the reward and recognition marketplace. And with people itching to travel—taking a vacation tops most people’s wish list for when the economy fully recovers, according to several surveys, and individual travel incentives have been on the rise the past year—the product is timely.
Target Taps Into Mobile Gift Cards M-commerce took a big stride forward this month when big box retailer Target introduced its Target Mobile GiftCard. Customers can now register their cards on a PIN-protected Target.com mobile site and make point-of-sale (POS) purchases with their smartphones, Web-enabled cell phones, by retrieving online bar codes that are scanned at checkout.
2010 Reader Forecast: It's Worth the Cost Incentive's 2010 Reader Forecast survey showed that more incentive programs will have their budgets cut than increased this year, but our respondents have contingency plans.
Site Survey Shows Technology Demand Thwarted by Limited Budgets According to the newly released Site Index: Focus on Technology report from the Chicago–based Site International Foundation, technology is in high demand and is increasingly being used by members of the incentive/motivational events industry, yet few are satisfied with their resources, and planning for future technology acquisitions is low.
Maritz Partners With Cornell Center for Hospitality Research St. Louis-based motivation firm Maritz has joined the Cornell Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) as its newest partner. Together, they plan to develop research that will inform best practices in the hospitality industry.
MPI FInds Cautious Optimism MPI's annual FutureWatch report anticipates a slight improvement for the year ahead.
Incentive/IMRA Sales Excellence Awards Winners Announced Incentive magazine announced the winners of its 15th annual Sales Excellence Awards earlier this week, celebrating the best and most successful independent representative firms in the industry.
U.S. Travel Association Forms Meetings, Incentives, Trade Show Council The U.S. Travel Association has created a new board member council that will build a proactive meetings and incentives research, communications, government relations and promotion agenda, it announced yesterday.
President Signs Travel Promotion Act President Barack Obama today signed the Travel Promotion Act into law, creating the public-private Corporation for Travel Promotion tasked with marketing America as a tourism destination around the globe.
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