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Smart Travel: Saudi Arabia MICE Industry Booms, American Airlines Shuts Down Group-Jumpers, $65 Billion Needed to Address Coastal and Marine Tourism Climate Issues

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You’re not alone—a major conference is being held to address the G20’s fastest-growing MICE market. Luxury Resort Brand Bardo to Open Pittsburgh Location in 2026 Boutique hospitality firm Left Lane will convert Pittsburgh’s 40-story Gulf Tower into Hotel Bardo Pittsburgh, opening summer 2006. of leisure and meeting spaces.

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Are We Creating The Wrong Type Of Conference Experiences?

Velvet Chainsaw

It’s as if Joe Pine and Jim Gilmore’s Experience Economy is just now hitting its stride—for conferences at least. The word is out: we’ve got to create conference experiences, not just conferences that feel like a patchwork quilt of our great grandmother’s dresses. A Disturbing Conference Trend. Read on…). Wrong hook!).

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Heike Mahmoud, CMP

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Heike Mahmoud , CMP, was one of the first European meeting professionals to earn the Certified Meting Professional (CMP) designation through the Events Industry Council (EIC) in 2006. At the conference, she felt overwhelmed with the content and networking opportunities available. I didn’t know that in 2006!”

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How an Event in Boston Is Making an Impactful Return

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16-18 to have its first in-person event since 2020, the annual Academic Event Professionals (AEP) conference, to be held at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. The AEP conference began in 2006 as a standalone specialized workshop at the Special Events Show conducted by TSEC CEO and AEP Advisory Board Chair Sally Webb.

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Smart Moves in Lake Tahoe, Laguna Beach and More

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In 2006, he founded CR Sales Solutions and was the company’s president for over six years. Before his present positions, Croke held the role of vice president of sales and marketing at The National Conference Center in Washington, D.C. Summers most recently worked for Optoro, a sustainable retail company in Washington, D.C.,

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Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings

Conferences that Work

Someone to tell it to at conferences. Conferences, whether in-person or online, are also potential arenas for conversations. But some conferences offer better opportunities than others. In 2006, Cory Doctorow wrote: “Conversation is king. Otherwise, people wouldn’t journal and practice self-affirmations.).

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Something is rotten in the state of meeting industry education

Conferences that Work

Over the last five years I’ve heard increasing concern from the meeting professionals community about the deterioration of the quality of our national industry conferences. Our industry conferences are the obvious places to provide this education. The key to successful 21st century conferences Attend Participate!,

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