| Greater Green Bay Convention & Visitors Bureau |
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Plan your winning event in a city full of champions! Green Bay offers a friendly and affordable meeting destination that is centrally located. Need a stadium, an arena, a convention center or a unique meeting space? Green Bay has all of these options and more. Airport, spouse programs, concierge services and FREE name tags.
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Check out our online convention planning guide, or call 888-867-3342 today to schedule your site visit.
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Rapid City/Mount Rushmore
So South Dakota
By RUTH A. HILL
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Travelers have been touring South Dakota’s Black Hills region for generations, making it a must-see stop on their journey to Yellowstone National Park and points farther west.
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| Not only is the area famous for its monumental carvings of four American presidents—Mount Rushmore National Memorial—and several other national monuments and parks, it is also an absorbing repository of Native American culture and Western history. Rapid City is the urban gateway to the region and offers groups varied facilities in which to conduct business, plus a plethora of irresistible excursions in the Black Hills region to round out meetings programs. Read More – Rapid City/Mount Rushmore … |
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Religious Cruise Meeting Tips
- Meetings cruises can be fun and purposeful. Consider them for fundraising, fellowship, education, spiritual renewal and onshore ministry.
- Plan a theme around a purpose, like shore ministry at foreign destinations or marriage enrichment. Some cruise lines even offer CSR shore opportunities, like Crystal Cruises’ “You Care, We Care Volunteerism.”
- Cruise meetings are often easier to plan than land-based alternatives because cruise ships have everything you need in the way of facilities and activities—at costs that are often lower than traditional meetings and events in hotels.
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| Close-Up: Springfield, Mo.
A little town with big opportunities
By TYLER DAVIDSON
Affordability, accessibility and proximity to the entertainment capital of the Midwest make Springfield, Mo., a catchy tune for planners who want small-town comfort combined with a fresh hotel inventory and college-town amenities. “We have great facilities and they are affordable, and most of the hotels have been recently renovated,” says Dana Maugans, director of sales for the Springfield Missouri CVB, adding that the city welcomed a Hilton Garden Inn with meeting space last spring and its Ramada Oasis on the northeast side of town is adding 13,000 square feet of meeting space next spring, which will result in a total offering of 30,000 square feet with a 20,000-square-foot ballroom.
Read More – Close-Up: Springfield »
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LATEST VIDEOS: 2011 APEC Conference - Mike McCartney
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Tyler Davidson, chief content director of Meetings Focus, discusses the importance of the 2011 APEC conference to Hawaii's meetings industry with Mike McCartney, president and CEO of the Hawaii Tourism Authority . Click here to view.
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