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2017 Association Trends that Impact Travel, Trade Shows & Hotels

SmartMeetings

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. Market research by Mintel also predicts that consumer spending on vacations and dining will jump 27 percent between 2015 and 2019. Meeting planners do, too.

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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. We came up with a theme: Honeybees were sustainable agriculture,” she said. “It

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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 The Ethics of Fams.

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