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Lessons Learned from MPI WEC in Mexico

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After some creative scheduling, Barcelo Maya Grand Resort stepped up to host in 2023, Louisville Tourism agreed to host what is expected to be a crowd of 2,500 at Kentucky International Convention Center a year early in 2024. Your contributions have created lasting memories and will continue to shape the future of our industry.

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California Travel Ban Provokes Scorn and Cancellations

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In Kentucky, another of the banned states, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer called the travel ban a “real threat to our growing tourism economy” after a hotel in the city announced it had lost two conventions as a result. ” He urged state leaders to rework the language of the Kentucky law that spurred the California ban.

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Ticketbud Tidbits Episode 5 - CJ Alderton

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So we’ve learned how to negotiate from what we have and leverage the venue. With a bluegrass festival, we’d be getting people from Kentucky and wherever. But what they can do is, we’re typically a pass through venue on the way to a town, either Denver or Santa Fe or Albuquerque. Sean: No, they don’t. And it wouldn’t be that problem.