In 2010, 71,600 people were employed as meeting, convention and event planners in the United States.
Wealthy Colombians see the houses as status symbols or as essential business assets in a city that increasingly is considered an important meeting, convention and cultural venue, said Mayra Rodriguez, owner of the Inmobiliaria IBN real estate agency in Cartagena.
Consumer and business spending are generally robust, which bodes well for meeting, convention and gaming centers such as Las Vegas.
Tourism officials estimate that this year, the pace of meetings, conventions and exhibitions is about even with previous years'.
But NYC & Company, the city's convention and visitors bureau, said that meetings, conventions and exhibitions -- particularly those that have an international flavor, like Fashion Week -- have become more important to the city's economic health because foreign visitors tend to spend much more than domestic visitors and are in short supply.
"A primary means of achieving this goal is the attraction of African American based meetings, conventions and conferences.
With a focus on developing group meetings, conventions and niche consumer markets for clients, Robert was responsible for the design and execution of sales and marketing programs for many of the country's most important hotel and casino brands.
Allowing yourself to go to parties or gatherings, or even just going to meetings, conventions, or the movies with different people, broadens your horizons a little bit every time you do it.
The ads were introduced in travel trade journals like Meetings & Conventions and Successful Meetings in 2011, and on Thursday they began appearing in publications including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
Over all, corporate meetings and conventions account for about $102 billion in annual spending worldwide, according to Meetings Professionals International, a trade group of corporate and third-party meetings planners.
