The Seoul Tourism Organization, Visit London and Business Events Sydney have announced the launch of the Future Convention Cities Initiative.

Three Florida areas currently untouched by oil spill damage are going to great efforts to prove that fact to prospective vacationers and meeting planners in order to stem possible losses in revenue.

Contributions toward events from attendees, a resurgence of Las Vegas as a destination, and meetings included as part of incentive trips—all are trends that meetings veteran Ann Saunders is seeing in the industry.

On May 27, 2010, the Illinois General Assembly enacted legislation in response to demands for a sweeping transformation in the way business is conducted on The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (MPEA) premises. As a result of this legislation, show management, contractors and exhibitors utilizing McCormick Place and the Navy Pier will realize immediate and long-term benefits.

The year 2010 is expected to bring some big changes in Jamaica’s tourism landscape, including the possible advent of casino gaming, Falmouth emerging as a new tourism destination, increased air traffic into Montego Bay and the opening of a new convention center. So said a delegation of Jamaican officials who were visiting New York as part of a blitz of northeastern U.S. cities to promote Jamaica as “the” winter destination.