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PCMA Convening Leaders May Set Record
WAfter the meetings industry has navigated a few of the roughest years in its history, PCMA’s Convening Leaders, held Jan. 8-11 in San Diego... Read more >>

Downtown Milwaukee Gets a Room Supply Surge
With three new hotels being built, and another expected to resume construction, downtown Milwaukee will add around 550 hotel rooms over the next two years... Read more >>

Hyatts Of SF Feature Stay Fit Programs
As part of the global Hyatt brand, and as a special feature for travelers who want to quench their fitness resolutions for the new year... Read more >>

LaTour Heads to Mexico
LaTour Hotels and Resorts, which offers hospitality management services for four-and five-star properties worldwide... Read more >>

The Future Is Now
Eastern Iowa Cities
The Iowa caucuses are over, and it will be another four years before the Hawkeye State resumes the media spotlight as the first major event in the presidential electoral process... Read more >>
The Future Is Now
Milwaukee Area
As sure as the Milwaukee area is a stomping ground for everyone from Harley-Davidson devotees and foodies to some hilarious Bridesmaids... Read more >>
The Future Is Now
Kansas
Meeting planners in the know are already well aware of Kansas' affordability and central location... Read more >>
The Future Is Now
Chicago Suburbs
For groups composed of Shakespeare buffs, fine art aficionados, stand-up comedy lovers or music enthusiasts, Chicago’s suburbs share a rich calendar of local performances to please every attendee... Read more >>
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Industry News Features
Beep betting on Coney casinos
What happens in Vegas . . . could happen in Coney. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz says Coney Island and its fabled boardwalk are the perfect place to build casinos... Read more >>

Top Trends in Travel for 2012
Travel is still a big part of our lives. So what are the top predictions for how, where and why we will travel this year... Read more >>

Hotel Nikko San Francisco Awarded for Community Service by PCMA
The Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA), one of the world’s leading organizations for meeting and event professionals, has selected... Read more >>

Top ten online hotel marketing resolutions for 2012
Which digital channels and formats most effectively reach today’s hyper-interactive travel consumers and generate the highest ROIs? Read more >>

Do or Die
For meeting planners who don’t have a contingency or safety plan in place—or for those who need to update an old plan—creating such a document can seem overwhelming... Read more >>

Resort Meetings Return
Resort meetings are back. So are sales events, incentive programs and all the other business-related functions that once kept resorts—and planners—busy... Read more >>

Taking Responsibility
Take yourself back about 10 years and imagine sitting in an event-planning meeting where someone brings up the term ‘corporate social responsibility.’ Read more >>

Case Study: Helping Youth In Maui
TBack in October, about 90 attendees from around the world descended on Maui, Hawaii, for a five-day incentive program... Read more >>


Wisconsin Dells VCB
Logo There’s nothing like a waterpark to rev up attendance. Now try more than 20 waterparks all within 20 square miles. And 8,000 hotel rooms. And meeting space sized from small and flexible to massive and high-tech. Wisconsin Dells - better known as “The Waterpark Capital of the World!®” - has quickly risen within the ranks of Midwest meeting hotspots. Tack on a family vacation, or go grown-up with a spa visit and round of golf.
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Focus Showcase Facilities and Happenings
A Look at What's Trending in Travel for 2012
I'm not sure I'd pay $15 to pitch a tent in someone's garden. And I don't plan to use Facebook or LinkedIn to pick my seatmate on a flight to Amsterdam... Read more >>

New White Paper Profiles Learning Environments of Conference Centers
Eric Whitson, Director of Sales & Marketing at TheNational Conference Center (NCC) announced the release of the fourth white paper in the quarterly series Meeting Discoveries... Read more >>

Tech and Tourists Spur Surge in Bay Area Hotel Business
The hotel market has roared back in the Bay Area, an upswing that suggests the region's battered lodging sector is finally putting the... Read more >>

Chicago's Neighborhood Tours Illustrate Diversity
Visitors heading to the Windy City this year should give serious consideration to a series of Neighborhood Tours dotting the 2012 calendar... Read more >>

Site Scene
Illinois
Swissotel Chicago began a $10 million renovation of its lobby and meeting space in December... Read more >>

Short Takes
Museums & Attractions
Opening in summer 2012, the Dinos Alive exhibit at Sandusky, Ohio’s Cedar Point amusement park will include 50 life-size animatronic dinosaurs that will roar and move... Read more >>

Happenings - Milwaukee Area
Milwaukee
Hilton Milwaukee (414.271.7250; www.hiltonmilwaukee.com) completed a multimillion-dollar, multiphase renovation project in June... Read more >>

Happenings - Chicago Suburbs
Northern Suburbs
Lake County
The Holiday Inn Gurnee Convention Center (847.336.6300; www.holidayinn.com) is currently under renovation and scheduled to reopen.... Read more >>


Past Issues
Famous Michigan Prop Gets a Redo - 1/5/11
Chicago Unveils New Marketing Efforts - 12/15/11
Swissotel Chi-Town Upgrading Meeting Space - 12/8/11
MPI Opens New ROI Toolbox - 12/1/11
Could Waldorf Blow Into Windy City? - 11/17/11
The $16 Muffin Crumbles - 11/10/11
New Industry Research Offers Insights Into Attendees - 11/3/11
Chicago Hotels Promise $500 Million in Improvements - 10/27/11
MPI Announces New Business Leader for Certification, Events - 10/20/11
Minneapolis Meetings Mecca Morphing Into Made-Over Marriott - 10/6/11
MPI to Release Findings of CSR Study - 9/29/11
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