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Top Picks for Meetings and Events in the Midwest

Unique Venues

We’ve scoured the region – check out our choices for Top Picks for Meetings in the Midwest! Beautiful Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri is a go-to venue for any kind of social or professional business event. Kansas City, MO. Galena Country Tourism. Arrowhead Stadium can accommodate up to 1,200 guests.

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MPI WEC Inspired Action in San Francisco

Smart Meetings

The 1,700 attendees checking in live at Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference ( WEC ) at Moscone Center in San Francisco this week were treated to a performance in three acts designed to provide “perspective,” “approach” and “action,” according to Paul Van Deventer, MPI president and CEO.

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Venues in the Heartland

Unique Venues

Whether you are looking for the tranquility of a venue located near nature or a bustling conference center in or near Chicago, we have identified some of our Top Picks for meeting in the Heartland. At Unique Venues, the Heartland offers a dynamic mix of places to host your next event. Hope College.

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7 Smart Moves at Loews Hotels, Duke Energy Convention Center and More

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He’s previously worked at The Silversmith Hotel in Chicago, One Ocean Resort & Spa in Atlantic Beach, Florida and various Marriott International hotels in Kansas City, Philadelphia and Baltimore. She most recently worked at Sheraton Austin Georgetown Hotel & Conference Center of Georgetown, Texas.

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5 Midsize Cities Using Their Local Knowledge Economies to Bring In Meetings

PCMA Convene

Walkability, value, and friendliness can be strong drivers for why planners choose certain destinations over others for meetings. If a city can hit on all of those cylinders, it can emerge as a meetings-business champion. SPN] was like, ‘What better way to [tell the story] than a conference? They fall across the spectrum.

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California Travel Ban Provokes Scorn and Cancellations

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In Kentucky, another of the banned states, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer called the travel ban a “real threat to our growing tourism economy” after a hotel in the city announced it had lost two conventions as a result. These were conferences prepared to sign contracts,” Fisher stated through a spokesperson. Cancelled in Louisville.

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Best in Show 2016

PCMA Convene

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the meetings and conventions industry is built on relationships — one on one, face to face, rooted in competence and trust. Meetings bring people together, you see, and that applies to the back of the house just as much as it does among attendees. Our readers did not disappoint.

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