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2017 Association Trends that Impact Travel, Trade Shows & Hotels

SmartMeetings

Is 2017 a buyer’s or a seller’s market for hotel supply growth? According to the 2016 Center for Exhibition Industry Research Index Report, trade shows will sustain a yearly 3 percent growth for the next few years. What does that mean for those whose business is to plan meetings, seminars and conferences?

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Inside the Bid Process for a Citywide Conference

PCMA Convene

Last September, when more than 9,000 beekeepers, researchers, and honey traders descended on Daejeon, South Korea, for Apimondia 2015, the 44th International Apicultural Congress, two groups of outsiders — a few dozen people in all — were among them. This is the international market.”. Illustration by Daniel Chang.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

The circle got considerably bigger in 1987, with a vote to open up membership to professionals in the fields of science, education, and engineering, and bigger still in 1990, when all nonprofit association meeting professionals and CEOs were invited to join. “We A Meeting Runs on Its Stomach. “As Blow Up Your F&B.

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