TIP SHEET

Sunborn Yacht Hotel: This cruise-ship-cum-hotel in London's Royal Docks features two large conference rooms plus a VIP room with showers and a bar.

Jungle Othon Palace: After you meet in this floating hotel on the Amazon in Brazil, you can hike the jungle--then collapse in a hammock.

--Walter Alarkon

Technology: Online Butlers

Internet-based travel companies are ratcheting up the competition by offering new services. "Everybody's nailed the air-car-hotel piece," says Dean Sivley, chief product and marketing officer at Cendant Corporate Travel Solutions. "Now you need to do more to get people to the online booking." When booking through a Cendant subsidiary, corporate travel managers can now order travel medical insurance, private security services and overnight delivery of cell phones. And when Cendant--which owns Travelocity, Orbitz and Travelport--learns of canceled or delayed flights, its software will automatically shift travelers to new flights and then send the information to their cell phones or PDAs.