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2009 Connect Marketplace
If you plan conferences, meetings or any type of event for your association or organization, you’ll find education, resources and inspiration at the Connect Marketplace, August 27-30, in Las Vegas. SIGN UP NOW ..read more
The Mix
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New center for Las Cruces
07/07/09 - 9:57 amGround was broken last week for New Mexico’s Las Cruces Convention Center. According to one news report, the facility is expected to be completed within 18 months and will have 30,000 square feet of meeting ..read more
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What’s in a name?
05/27/09 - 9:03 amIn the meetings industry, acronyms abound — MPI, CIC, PCMA, CMP, ASAE are just a few. Here at Connect, we’ve been struggling with SMERF, long used in the hospitality industry as a convenient abbreviation ..read more
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10 meeting trends in 2009
04/08/09 - 8:46 am1. It’s all business: Thanks to the economy, meetings are cutting back on leisure activities and staying serious and focused on the task at hand.
2. Staying in the black instead of green: Planners are putting ..read more
Inside Connect
Savor the South
Comfort food makes the South even more hospitable for meetings. So taking a plated tour is an extra-like adding gravy to biscuits, sugar to iced tea, and vinegar to ..read more
Let the Games Begin
Before the 2010 Winter Olympics get underway in British Columbia a year from this February, let the games begin for meeting planners interested in going to Vancouver and ..read more
What Constitutes Value Now?
It’s a buyer’s market, at least that’s the word on the street. Popular destinations, cruise lines, and even luxury hotels that wouldn’t have looked at some meetings in the past, are promoting deals to lure ..read more
