PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

Oklahoma City is using influencer marketing in the form of a travel-writing team who will highlight the city’s leisure attractions — and is also bolstering its meetings portfolio with a new convention center. Like many second-tier convention destinations, Oklahoma City doesn’t suffer from a negative perception. TESTING, TESTING.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 15, 2022

Andaz West Hollywood , LA’s premier hotel on the Sunset Strip, named Tucker general manager and Frederick director of sales, events and marketing. Frederick brings 15 years of hotel operations experience to the new role. Suescun was previously director of global accounts at Omni Hotels & Resorts, where she worked for four years.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

While your central location should be your primary concern, hotels, restaurants, entertainment venues, and other social settings should also be considered. Shannon Copeland is an industry manager and meteorologist for StormGeo and a graduate of the University of Oklahoma’s School of Meteorology.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Benchmark named Colin Ankersen general manager for The Heldrich Hotel & Conference Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Prior to joining Benchmark, Ankersen was vice president of Boast Management and general manager at the Westminster Hotel, located in Livingston, New Jersey. The Heldrich Hotel & Conference Center.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 15, 2019

Photo credit: Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts. Photo credit: Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts. McArthur Ballroom, Conference Center, Grand Ballroom, Aztec Room and Patio, Gold Room, Valley Room and Terrace Court. Wingspread Retreat and Executive Conference Center. Arizona Biltmore. Historic Park Inn.

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Connect Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Fort Worth Convention Center in Texas has it all, according to Becky Rowbotham, president of Hunt Conference Group, Inc. Branson Convention Center in Missouri gets major points for its location on Branson Landing nearby Hilton hotels. Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis hosts major conferences every year and it’s easy to see why.

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Connect Your Meetings

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Less familiar Southern locales are enjoying a spur of activity as of late, adding to their appeal for meetings and conferences. billion renovation of its downtown area, complete with 300 new hotel rooms and a burgeoning food scene. Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Fayetteville, Arkansas, both turned heads this year with high rankings on the U.S.

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Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 29, 2019

This includes, but is not limited to, conferences, leadership training programs, and membership education opportunities. How I got here: After graduate school, I worked for the University of Oklahoma serving the fraternal community and student activities eventually moving to Indianapolis to work for Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

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Event Leadership Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

So if a convention hotel says they had a great June, that means they had a lot of events occur in June, all of which were likely booked months or years prior. Leisure travel will return first, and when air and hotel numbers start going up in decent numbers, that’s a strong indicator. Hotels will be converted to apartments.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2018

Does that last piece include conferences and conventions? The factors that we looked at are really in terms of investment more so than conferences and meetings, but I think there is strong alignment and overlap. Tulsa, Oklahoma. There are relatively few in North America, I think.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 26, 2019

The workshop was led by consultant Donna Kastner, an entrepreneur and expert on experience design, and Jamie Murdock, vice president of sales at Experient, who have facilitated successful hackathons at the Education Conference over the previous two years.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Let’s see that was mainly luxury hotels, key markets. We were just talking with a bunch of those guys up in Edmonton for the Go West Conference. Unrelated to this news I was already starting to see people saying, “Wow, it just feels like hotels and venues and in-house AVs are bending a lot less. Will Curran: Totally.

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