Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Johnston has worked for Union Pacific Railroad in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas and R.L. Hoffman brings 28 years of experience in senior hospitality and business development sales, marketing, finance and operations to her new role. Van Workum is market general manager at The St. Banks & Associates Inc. in Washington, D.C.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Johnston has worked for Union Pacific Railroad in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas and R.L. Hoffman brings 28 years of experience in senior hospitality and business development sales, marketing, finance and operations to her new role. Van Workum is market general manager at The St. Banks & Associates Inc. in Washington, D.C.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

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. Ritten has more than 25 years of experience at branded and independent hotels in airport, convention and resort destinations.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

AUGUST 13, 2018

but also as a passionate advocate on behalf of the multibillion-dollar travel and tourism industry. Loews Kansas City, opening in the first quarter of 2020, will have 800 guest rooms and more than 60,000 square feet of meeting space. Chairman and CEO Jonathan Tisch serves not only as the ambassador of Loews Hotels & Co.,

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Rethinking Destination Marketing. Kansas City’s American Jazz Museum. Closer to the meetings industry: Five CVBs in Midwest destinations — Des Moines, Kansas City, Omaha, Minneapolis, and Sioux Falls — teamed up earlier this year to gain strength in numbers. Michelle Russell. Jennifer N.

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JULY 31, 2016

For Jeff Slobotski and Dusty Davidson, however, the region’s flourishing startup culture was a story that needed telling, which is why, in 2008, they founded an online publication called Silicon Prairie News (SPN) — taking its name from a tech-friendly area that includes Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 1, 2024

He went bankrupt with his first studio in Kansas City after only 18 months,” affirms Jeff Barnes, who is often referred to Dr. Disneyland because he created a college course devoted to Walt and the man’s obsession that became the world’s most iconic theme park. Let’s start at the beginning of the story. And he just kept moving forward.”

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

After 16 years at Visit Pittsburgh, most recently as executive vice president, Jason Fulvi will join Visit Kansas City on Sept. is lagging in tourism. 12 as its new president and CEO. Initially, meetings felt like therapy sessions to him, but eventually formal committees were formed to improve the sales process. More: The U.S.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 23, 2022

Hilton Aventura Miami announced Villa as its new director of sales and marketing. Villa brings 15 years of experience in hospitality sales and marketing. Most recently, he was area director of sales and marketing at Driftwood Hospitality Management. German Villa. Jessica Schultz. Lance Marrin and Vincent De Croock.

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Connect Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

If anyone knows how important it is to start from the bottom and work their way up, it is new Visit Kansas City (Missouri) President and Chief Executive Officer Jason Fulvi, CDME. Here, we get to know Fulvi and see what the future holds for Kansas City. What would you do to entertain someone in Kansas City? Everyone has rallied.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Kennedy, creating United States Travel Service (now the National Travel and Tourism Office), a new agency within the U.S. forms to develop a private-sector marketing program after Congress and President Lyndon B. 1969: Association establishes a National Council of State Travel (now Tourism) Directors (NCSTD). travel industry.

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