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Winter Means Business in the Midwest

Connect Your Meetings

When old man winter rears his ugly head, the best thing you can do to boost your conference attendance is to head to Florida—right? Yet that’s only a thought of the uneducated, say tourism leaders in this region. For Milwaukee, annual repeat business and state association meetings provide the warm thoughts.

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Inside the Bid Process for a Citywide Conference

PCMA Convene

Everyone seemed excited to see us there, because the conference hadn’t been to the United States since 1967,” said Nathan Hermiston, director of destination sales for Meet Minneapolis, whose colorful booth at Apimondia 2015 was the culmination of an 18-month-long bid for Apimondia 2019. You have to eat the elephant in small bites.