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How Meetings Benefit from Sporting Events

SmartMeetings

Are you ready for some…meetings? 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. Many visitors and meeting planners impressed with GH and Texas will return to build future tourism,” the study states. Indianapolis.

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Smart Moves in Houston, Las Vegas, and More

Smart Meetings

D’Wayne Leatherland D’Wayne Leatherland Leatherland has been promoted to chief operating office (COO) at Agenda: USA , Kansas City’s first and only Destination Management Company (DMC). Leatherland has been with Agenda: USA for almost three years in roles as assistant general manager and director of group transportation logistics.

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Smart Moves in Houston, Las Vegas, and More

Smart Meetings

D’Wayne Leatherland D’Wayne Leatherland Leatherland has been promoted to chief operating office (COO) at Agenda: USA , Kansas City’s first and only Destination Management Company (DMC). Leatherland has been with Agenda: USA for almost three years in roles as assistant general manager and director of group transportation logistics.

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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. And more and more, they’re asking questions about a destination’s local expertise and knowledge base.

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Unique Experiences - Volume 3

Unique Venues

Striking and Memorable Events At Scottsdale Private Event Venues. Give your guests the experience of the very early days of flight by transporting them back in time in an accurately appointed space created to feel like the very first international airline: Pan-American Airlines. • Make Your Event CLASSIC!

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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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All Politics Is Local

PCMA Convene

The first strategy meeting was with the city and the city leaders,” said Colette Jones, Destination Cleveland’s vice president of marketing. By the beginning of 2014, Cleveland and seven other cities were in the running: Cincinnati, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Las Vegas, and Phoenix. They can walk from most of the hotels.”.

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