MPI: Good Times Despite Bad Times

Meeting Professionals International’s annual Professional Education Conference/North America, held February 2 through 4 at the Walt Disney World Resort and at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., ended up a success despite economic worries, the prospect of war, and the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its crew the day before the conference opened. At 2,207 (680 planners and 1,167 suppliers), attendance was well up over last year’s somewhat disappointing