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Natural Disasters Create New Challenges for Meetings Industry

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Today marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria making landfall in Puerto Rico, one of the worst of many destructive turns of nature during the past year, many directly affecting hubs of the meetings and hospitality industries. Whether you’re in the tourism industry or not, it will have a downstream effect everywhere.”.

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10 Smart Moves at Visit Santa Cruz, Benchmark, Turtle Bay Resort, Westgate Park City and More

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She brings more than eight years of experience in the tourism and hospitality industry and will focus on management of sales and marketing programs for group travel. She will target two primary markets: corporate group meetings and international tourism travel trade. Jim Koutsky. Philipp Knuepfer.

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5 Smart Moves from VisitPITTSBURGH, Benchmark, The Jefferson Hotel and More

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Kathleen (Katie) Conaway VisitPITTSBURGH, the official tourism promotion agency for Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, hired Kathleen (Katie) Conaway to the newly created position of domestic and international group sales director. Edlen Electrical Exhibition Services.

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5 Smart Moves at Hyatt Regency, Kimpton and More

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Klara Crocco Klara Crocco has been appointed director of marketing and communications at Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa in Hawaii. Smith has experience with the Boys and Girls Homes of North Carolina, Inc. and, most recently served as site director for the Easter Seals UCP Wilmington office.

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Smart Women 2017: Doer

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Tourism is the state’s second-largest economic industry and LRCVB is an integral part of virtually all quality-of-life projects and economic-development initiatives within the city. All are skills I rely on in meeting planning. What I love about my job: The relationships, the variety of projects and the pace of the job.

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Smart Women 2017 – Doer

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Tourism is the state’s second-largest economic industry and LRCVB is an integral part of virtually all quality-of-life projects and economic-development initiatives within the city. All are skills I rely on in meeting planning. What I love about my job: The relationships, the variety of projects and the pace of the job.

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