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MPI Announces New Courses to Address Security, Risk Management

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Less than 50 percent of meeting planners have risk management plans in place for their events, said Paul Van Deventer, president and CEO of Meeting Professionals International (MPI), in remarks given at WEC 2017 on Tuesday. This course will be offered in January 2018 at the SITE MPI Global Forum in Rome.

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Planning in the eye of the storm

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passengers onboard flights from Brussels and Rome to Montreal sat on the tarmac for 6 hours without water, food or air conditioning. Advise everyone to purchase extra water after clearing security and enough food to tide them over in case of delays. In Canada, an inquiry is currently underway. On July 31st.,