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Winter Means Business in the Midwest

Connect Your Meetings

“We recently had our regular business—conventions, meetings and overall leisure—analyzed, and surprisingly even to us, business is basically at the same percentage for each of the four quarters,” says Bloemendaal. 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

An ideal citywide conference for Minneapolis is between 10,000 and 15,000 attendees, and the region boasts a wealth of beekeeping resources, including the University of Minnesota Bee Lab. First, however, Meet Minneapolis had to wait for the ABF and the Eastern Apicultural Society — Apimondia’s U.S. Earn one hour of CEU credit.