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Conventions help local economy flourish As delegates swarm in, area businesses collect dividends Conventions and meetings are estimated to have pumped more than $200 million dollars into the Twin Cities [...]

Hotel revenue was soft before terrorist attacks Sept. 11 changed everything for Americans. But a much changed travel environment - from the nation's grief over an estimated 5,500 people killed [...]

What does it take to compete in the $4 billion meetings and convention industry? According to Jim Wood, president and CEO of the Providence Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau, it [...]

RALEIGH -- Raleigh business and political leaders are renewing talks for a new convention center in downtown. The Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau commissioned a study in the late [...]

The convention business in San Antonio, Texas has apparently survived the economic downturn as it has been selected to host conventions with as much as 23,000 attendees. As a result, hotels have sold 11.5 percent more rooms from January to March of 2010. The effects of the economic downturn on other cities are also discussed.

Cost-cutting measures by businesses and organizations is seen to boost the Columbus, Ohio convention services industry. Future hotel bookings in the city have increased. Comments from executives are also provided.

Cisco Systems and Network Appliance have cancelled planned conventions in San Francisco for 2009, two meetings that were expected to bring $47 million in convention-related spending. The cancellations may serve as an indication that the city's convention business may become the next casualty of the economic downturn. The impacts of the convention cancellations on the city's economy are examined.

Brett Mitchell's timing may turn out to be pretty good after all. Mitchell, who became general manager of the Overland Park Convention Center in September, said that calls for bookings [...]

East Bay cities vie for a piece of the pie Twenty years ago, when he was an offensive guard for the San Francisco 49ers, Ronald Davis had the formidable job [...]

If it is true, as it is often said, that the construction industry is the engine that drives Maryland's economy, then the meetings and convention industry is the turbocharger that [...]

The first two to three weeks in December historically have been considered down time for Orlando's meetings and conventions business. But this December seems to be veering away from the [...]