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Smart Moves in South Carolina, Missouri and More

Smart Meetings

Tourism bureau Experience Columbia SC hired both Shaffer and Lilly as sales managers. Shaffer has spent over two decades in tourism and hospitality sales. Lilly has been in hospitality, tourism, event management and sales for 15 years. Gibson is now director of resort experience at Hawks Cay Resort in the Florida Keys.

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How Planners Are Celebrating GMID 2022

Smart Meetings

MPI Minneapolis will be meeting in person at Delta Hotels Minneapolis from 1-5p.m. to cover the state of the meetings industry and post-Covid experiences, featuring experts from Meet Minneapolis, Experience Rochester, and local and regional meetings industry associations. MPI chapters across the U.S.

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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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