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The Destination Marketing Association International introduced empowerMINT.com, an online tool for meeting planners that profiles destinations and

According to a report from the Destination & Travel Foundation, the convention marketing budgets of DMOs (destination marketing organizations)

MPI announced that it will hold the 2014 World Education Congress in Minneapolis, while San Francisco and Philadelphia will be the sites of the 2015

The former Dockum Rexall Drugstore, site of an historic protest during the Civil Rights era, will be redeveloped as the Ambassador Wichita, a 117-

The owner of the Century Plaza outlined a $2 billion proposal that calls for rehabilitating the landmark hotel in L.A.’s Century City and

John Q. Hammons Hotels & Resorts is walking away from completion of the stalled 300-room Renaissance Hotel in Colorado Springs, according to a

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Mark H. White, currently vice president of sales for Visit Salt Lake, will be the new president and CEO of the Reno-Sparks Convention & Visitors

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History lesson for younger generations... 'older' generations were doing 'The Green Thing' before it was called 'The Green Thing.’

Florida Shelborne South Beach’s 5,000-square-foot ballroom recently underwent a redesign. The renovated ballroom,

After 22 months of stalled negotiations, hotel workers at the Chicago Park Hyatt held a one-day strike on Jan. 21 to protest the working conditions

The five U. S. destinations with the lowest discriminatory travel taxes—those imposed specially on travel-related services—are all in

The Hotel Wilshire, a 74-room boutique property with stylish rooftop event space, is set to open in the Mid-Wilshire corridor of Los Angeles on Sept

For many Millennials, as well as others, mobile meeting apps and other paperless means of communication are preferred over hard-copy agendas. “

To some, the Millennial generation is like a team of wild horses in need of taming. Strong willed, speaking a language laced with cyber terms,