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Meeting Association Powwow Planned
MeetingsNet
August 24, 2010
The U.S. Travel Association is planning a meeting for CEOs of all the major meeting planner associations October 8 in Chicago.
Meetings Professionals to Question US Lawmakers
C+MW
August 24, 2010
Meetings and conference industry professionals will have the opportunity to speak their minds and pose questions to American lawmakers. A new initiative by the US Travel Association seeks to make the meetings industry a topic of discussion in the run-up to the 2010 elections.
Meet the new American leisure traveler
Hotel & Motel Management
August 23, 2010
Although most economists have declared the Great Recession over, its specter continues to weigh heavily on the minds of consumers.
Visa Waiver as an Effective Public Diplomacy Tool
Heritage Foundation
August 23, 2010
When a program can increase U.S. security and counterterrorism efforts and benefit the American economy at a time of a struggling recovery, you have hit a double jackpot. And when the program—in this case the United States Visa Waiver Program (VWP)—is also an effective public diplomacy tool for improving the image of the U.S. abroad, it is a triple jackpot.
Putting Meetings and Travel Center Stage at Mid-Term Elections
MeetingsNet
August 23, 2010
Meetings industry professionals have an opportunity to ask lawmakers such as Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark.; and Florida Governor Charlie Crist about their positions on travel and meetings–related issues through U.S. Travel’s new initiative that seeks to thrust the industry into the 2010 elections.
Selling Florida's Gulf Coast Beaches
Newsweek
August 22, 2010
It’s been a tough summer for tourism along Florida’s Gulf Coast, which has been suffering since the start of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in late April. Although surface oil did little damage to beaches in the Panhandle, pictures of oil-bathed birds and blackened sand fueled misconceptions and kept many visitors away. But President Obama’s visit to Panama City Beach last weekend and some last-minute summer deals may help attract a new wave of vacationers to the Sunshine State.
For Gulf tourism, problem is perception — not oil
The Associated Press
August 22, 2010
On the great yawning porch that once belonged to Confederate president Jefferson Davis, two women sit in rockers listening to the cicadas and looking out over Mississippi Sound as they wait for their tour to begin. Before Hurricane Katrina, some 200 people came each day to visit the house — the only structure on the oak-shaded Beauvoir estate not destroyed by the storm. And that's just what's needed to break even. Tourism has dropped off 20 percent here, with just a few visitors on some days since BP PLC's well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico.
Details Faulted in Plan to Pay Oil Spill Claims
The New York Times
August 20, 2010
The details of exactly how the $20 billion fund set up by BP will be distributed to those affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which were made public on Friday, did little to allay worries and suspicions here, drawing instead sharp criticism from several quarters.
Hotels book more meeting, convention groups this year
USA TODAY
August 17, 2010
Americans are meeting again on the road. Hotels are reporting a rebound in business from group customers, a key segment that includes companies, associations, sports teams, religious groups, social organizations and the military.
For Hotels, Eco-Friendly Ideas Await a Friendlier Economy
The New York Times
August 16, 2010
Hotels eager to satisfy the growing desire of business travelers for eco-friendly lodging are finding that their environmental ambitions have run headlong into the harsh realities of the recession.
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