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Rebranded PCMA Embraced World Stage at Convening Leaders Conference

Smart Meetings

What do economic forecasts, vulnerable leadership, Asia trends, values-driven political actions and global social advocacy have in common? Karamat predicted that elevated levels of security will evolve to become more seamless and less of an encumbrance as airport security has improved since 2001.

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Talent Attraction Spotlight: Greensboro, NC

DCI

As cities and regions across the country vie for talent , we are featuring economic development organizations implementing creative talent attraction marketing efforts as part of our Talent Attraction Spotlight blog series. Action Greensboro conducted focus groups with current boomerangs and examined migration trend data.

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Industry Mourns Bob Lander’s Passing

Convene by PCMA

Bob Lander, who served as president and CEO of Visit Austin from 2001 to 2016, has passed away after a long battle with cancer. Lander was active in a number of industry-related organizations, including Destinations International, PCMA, ASAE, and he served on the U.S.

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How has Social Media Changed the Tourism Industry?

Solimar International

TripAdvisor revolutionized the industry in 2001 by making a public online platform for customer reviews. Now, customers organically share their best vacation photos, putting destinations, hotels, and restaurants on their Friends’ and Followers’ radars. On the flip side, viral trends and fad destinations can lead to over-tourism.

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Tech Giants: Snöball’s Rachel Stephan on the Power of Word-of-Mouth Marketing to Fill Seats and Grow Audiences Year-Round

MeetingPool

We sat down with Stephan to discover how her word-of-mouth marketing and audience growth strategy excels for events and year-round engagement, challenges and trends she is seeing in event marketing and the most important lessons she has learned along the way as an event tech founder. The rest just simply 'snöballed' from there.”

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Spreading the Word at Convening Leaders 2022

Convene by PCMA

The 20-year-old organization distributes a new or gently used book every month to each child in the program — 60,000-plus books are given away each month. The PCMA Foundation also donated $10,000 to the organization. “We Participants in the Convening Leaders 22 Hospitality Helping Hands (HHH) session Jan.

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Sustaining the Resilience of Community-Based Tourism Initiatives in Brazil

Solimar International

As a result, a round of debates was organized to discuss the positive and negative impacts of operating ecotourism and ethno-tourism. The construction took place between 2001 and 2002 with resources from the state government and supervision by ITESP. However, only Quilombo Ivaporunduva’s initiative displayed resilience.

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