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AUGUST 2008
2008 Meetings Market Report
The number of meetings is up, as is the number of attendees, yet the total expenditure on events has declined slightly. These findings are among hundreds of revealing statistics in M&C’s 18th biennial survey of the meetings industry, a comprehensive report featuring data on corporate and association planning, incentive and technology trends, and more. New to this year’s Meetings Market Report: a look at planners’ efforts to go green.
Meetings Market Report 2008 -- Corporate
Survey results for the corporate market
Meetings Market Report 2008 -- Association
Survey results for the association market
Meetings Market Report 2008 -- "Green"
Survey results for "green" practices
A (Hectic) Day in the Life
The convention services manager is a planner’s on-site partner, the point person who makes sure the hotel meets or exceeds customer expectations. How hard can it be? M&C senior editor Cheryl-Anne Sturken spent a recent workday shadowing Patricia Sousa, CSM at New York City’s Omni Berkshire Place. The pace, Sturken reports, was breakneck.
Natural Selection
With affordable lodging, modern technology and plenty of leisure activities, America’s state parks can serve as great meeting venues. Here are four such places where planners and attendees have been pleasantly surprised and promise to return.
CVB Legends
This lively Q&A features five retired — and one soon-to-retire — convention and visitor bureau executives whose collective experience comprises a history of meetings, conventions, tourism and hospitality over the past four decades.
Luxe or Less
Bright ideas to suit any budget
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