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How Meetings Benefit from Sporting Events

SmartMeetings

When a city is preparing to host a sporting event, they invest in improving their infrastructure, building and renovating hotels and expanding their public transportation routes. 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.

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5 Midsize Cities Using Their Local Knowledge Economies to Bring In Meetings

PCMA Convene

With a half-million residents and a reputation for companies that skew more conservative than cutting-edge, Omaha, Nebraska, would seem to occupy its own low-key, tried-and-true business niche. One thing unites all five destinations: They’re smart about their smarts. OMAHA, NE Welcome to the Silicon Prairie.