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Meeting Profs Travel Report: Who Travels for Business?

Smart Meetings

According to the global survey of 3,850 business travelers in 25 markets: Nearly all global business travelers (94%) are willing to travel for business in the next 12 months, including 67% who are very willing. business travelers (72%) feel they haven’t had equal opportunity. Even more U.S. Even more U.S. Global and U.S.

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Introduction to my new book Event Crowdsourcing

Conferences that Work

I immigrated to the United States after falling in love with Vermont, a rural state with no opportunity to continue the big-lab science path I’d been traveling. If you had told me then that the.

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Travel + Leisure World’s Best Hotels High on Boutiques

SmartMeetings

The 2016 Travel + Leisure World’s Best awards were announced on July 6, and if there’s a theme among the Top 100 Hotels in the World it’s that “boutique is better.” 4, respectively, by Travel + Leisure’s annual readers’ survey. “It Twin Farms, Barnard, Vermont. Here are other U.S.

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Smart Moves in San Antonio, Atlanta and More

Smart Meetings

Loren Christie Loren Christie Christie is appointed as the new managing director for BestCities Global Alliance. She joined Omni La Mansión del Rio upon her graduation from University of Texas San Antonio, working up to a position as Convention Service Manager.

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Growing Appetite for Local Ingredients on Event Menus

PCMA Convene

That refers to the distance that food travels to reach your plate. For further information on the environmental and social reasons for buying locally sourced food, read “ Ten Reasons to Buy Local Food ” from the University of Vermont. Dienst is managing editor at Convene. Jennifer N.

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Modest and Reasonable with a Twist

SmartMeetings

Bihet and Andrew Hoag, category manager for commercial meetings and events with Biogen in Boston were quick to point out that despite the limitations, events—virtual and in-person—can still be powerful tools for engaging busy audiences and advancing knowledge. Costs for everything else must fall under the category of “fair and reasonable.”

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New Ski Conglomerate Purchases Deer Valley Resort

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Other resorts purchased by the conglomerate include Square Valley Alpine Meadows and Mammoth Mountain in California, Steamboat Ski Resort and Winter Park Resort in Colorado, Stratton Mountain Resort in Vermont, Snowshoe Mountain Resort in West Virginia, Blue Mountain Ski Resort in Ontario, Canada, and Mount Tremblant Resort in Quebec, Canada.

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