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

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So he defaulted to another set of criteria: He looked for “a smallish place where government and the people in the city are pleased to see you,” and that was reasonably priced, where attendees could walk to the conference center. Why go from Portugal to North Carolina’s eighth-most-populous city? Hutton said. “No, No, there wasn’t.”.