Larger than the auto industry, the U.S. meetings business supported 1.7 million jobs and generated $263 billion in spending in 2009. Here’s our inside look at the big numbers from the new Convention Industry Council economic significance...
How hard could it be to set up a meeting room? Pretty hard, it turns out, if you've never done it before and you have only 30 minutes. Thank goodness for Al.
I've attended every RCMA conference since 1980, and I have to say the Tampa conference in January was, in my opinion, one of the best ever. I heard the same from many other attendees as well. The opening reception set the tone for the entire...
In my next life, I am going to be a media advocate for the meetings industry. I am going to travel to the city desk of every major newspaper (Of course, in my next life, there probably won't be any newspapers left!), and explain to the editor and...
“We welcome RCMA back with open arms,” remarked Paul Catoe, president and CEO of Tampa Bay & Company, at the opening breakfast session during RCMA's January conference in Tampa, Fla. Catoe praised the association's economic impact on the city...
“We finally have a boulder to move,” said Roger Rickard, partner, Revent, LLC, a meetings industry advocacy consultant, recommended by the Convention Industry Council as advocate to state and local governments for CIC's economic significance...