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The city of Cheyenne, Wyoming is one of five CVBs offering financial incentives to meeting groups.
Cash for Conventions: 5 CVBs Offer Financial Incentives
Last week’s issue of Travel Market Report examined how convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs) provide assistance to meeting and event planners, including help with attendance building, marketing and financial incentives. In this issue we will focus more closely on assistance with financial incentives by featuring five CVBs that are putting their money where their mouth is through a variety of cost cutting promotions and discounts.
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CVBs: A Meeting Planner’s Secret Weapon
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If an organization offered to help you with your client’s meeting or incentive program for free and perhaps even contribute up to $20,000 toward your group’s transportation costs, would you ignore it?
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Resurgent New Orleans Is Once More a Top Meetings Destination
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New Orleans’ resurgence as a leading tourism and meeting destination was covered in last week’s issue of Travel Market Report. This boom has not gone unnoticed by the tourism industry, according to Tara Letort, director, Group Communications & Public Relations for the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau, who reported that New Orleans was recently named No. 7 in the Travel and Leisure magazine’s top 10 cities list.
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Protecting Your Attendees
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When you’re dealing with a meeting, you’re also dealing with travel risk management, said Bruce McIndoe, president, iJET Intelligent Risk Systems. Planners need to identify and disclose the risks of the venue and the meeting as well as have a crisis management plan in place.
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