Meetings & Conventions magazine, Perfection in Planning!

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Since 1965, Meetings & Conventions magazine has been helping meeting and event planners in corporations, associations, incentive houses and independent planning companies excel at their jobs and effectively manage their careers.

In our award-winning monthly print publication and here at M&C Online, we offer in-depth features, informative columns, destination insights, news analysis, original research and much more. And, our new, improved website offers additional tools: an articles archive, a powerful facility search engine, breaking news and other helpful features -- literally at your fingertips.

Read the Digital Issue: Meeting & Convention Magazine, August 2009

FEATURE
27 ON THE COVER: Joining Forces
Increasingly, multiple trade shows within the same industry are taking bold steps to reduce duplication and boost the value for constituents. This comprehensive report examines how show organizers are adjusting the number of events, colocating and forging new partnerships for maximum impact.

41 A New Chapter
Like everything else today, regional association meetings are confronting the challenge of trying to grow — or simply retain their numbers — in a difficult economic landscape. In the process, planners are finding innovative ways to reshape the parameters and content of their events to better attract and serve attendees.

49 Lightening Their Load
Hoteliers can cut meeting planners the best deals if a group’s needs aren’t too labor-intensive for the property. M&C presents insights from the hotel perspective on how to help ease the burden, from room setups to F&B and much more.

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> Master chefs: A region-by-region guide to good eating, via winners of the James Beard Foundation Best Chefs in America awards for 2009

> Exotic entrées: Here are some hotels around the United States whose chefs specialize in far-flung cuisines such as Lebanese, South African and Swiss.

> Parsing a program called Pogby: Here’s the scoop behind a new and different web-based engine that helps planners find event venues.

> Fly on the wall: A phalanx of major hotel executives met recently in New York City to discuss the current and future state of their industry, and M&C was there.

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