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West Coast DMOs Rollout Alliance

Smart Meetings

The pandemic has been a very rough time for the nation’s destination marketing organizations , as it has for the hospitality and meetings industry as a whole. Named for the chef’s mother, it was launched in 2005 and today serves warm meals to 5,000 needy children daily in 20 locations at 62 locations. View this post on Instagram.

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What is Virtual Distance and Why Does It Matter?

Creative Group Inc

10 Meeting and Event Design Tips to Bridge the Virtual Distance Gap By: Melissa Van Dyke, Senior Vice President, Integrated Marketing and Innovation, Creative Group For years, the expansion of organizations into multiple offices, cities, and countries has posed significant challenges for uniting people as “one team.”

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WTTC Survey Assesses Cities’ Sustainable Tourism Growth

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Sustainability efforts are key to keep the travel and tourism train going. In a report by World Travel & Tourism Council and JLL, “ Destination 2030: Global Cities’ Readiness For Sustainable Tourism Growth ,” the two organizations take a look at the cities making tourism sustainable. million visitors.

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10 Top Literary Oases for Groups—in Hotels!

Smart Meetings

The tall shelves showcase more than 100 books, including Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford, In The Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys by Campbell McGrath and Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. In 2016, after an expansion, the property added a new Art Deco wing on the third floor, where the library is now located. Regis New York City.

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A Storied Career in Association Management and Events

Convene by PCMA

He was responsible for overseeing Smithbucklin’s relationship with the United Soybean Board and has been a member of the Smithbucklin Board of Directors since 2005. You can learn far more about effectively managing volunteer organizations if you experience being a volunteer yourself. He also headed up the company’s D.C

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Bringing the Maker Movement to Events

Convene by PCMA

He founded and is president of Make: Community, which, according to its website, has been at the heart of the maker movement — celebrating everyone from tech enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers — since 2005. It’s a way for people to connect to other people in that organization differently.”

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3 Questions About Leadership

Convene by PCMA

Fiorina is best known for having served as CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005 — the first woman to lead a Fortune 20 company. president in 2016, has headed up several philanthropic organizations tackling global poverty and promoting female empowerment, and is the best-selling author of three books. She ran for U.S.

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