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How Meetings Benefit from Sporting Events

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When a city is preparing to host a sporting event, they invest in improving their infrastructure, building and renovating hotels and expanding their public transportation routes. From football to baseball to figure skating and more, college, professional and amateur sports bring in a lot of dough and tourism to popular meeting destinations.

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A Legacy of Inclusion: Winning Meeting Tips From Beth Knox

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That way, all athletes and their families could be housed in one place to reduce the need for expensive transportation logistics. The crowd was a fraction of the size that would show up for the main event, but it forced transportation and housing partners to develop systems that would work for this population. “We That meant a lot.”.

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

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With a half-million residents and a reputation for companies that skew more conservative than cutting-edge, Omaha, Nebraska, would seem to occupy its own low-key, tried-and-true business niche. Frankfurt is Germany’s financial epicenter, for example, consistently attracting programs such as Euro Finance Week, held each November.