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BUCOM Beat: Social Networks & Your Meeting

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Thursday, December 4, 2008. Social Networks and Your Meeting. In addition, I have separate passwords for PayPal, banking, frequent flier programs, blog, eTrade, eBay, Amazon, email marketing, instant messenger. you get the picture. How do we, as meeting professionals, use this to help strengthen our programs? Rather than diving in head first, you'll want to dip your toes in to see what works and what doesn't. The idea behind this is to connect and interact with your audience, giving them the opportun...

BUCOM Beat: BUCOM Daily Value...

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BUCOM Beat: 2009 - Banner Year for Air Travel?

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Thursday, December 11, 2008. 2009 - Banner Year for Air Travel? Much like the recent turmoil in the stock market, the health of America’s airlines industry is changing on a daily basis. Just five months ago, second quarter travel statistics were extremely gloomy as carriers slashed capacity to counter falling demand. But a combination of factors has leveled the playing field in such drastic ways as to make some industry analysts bullish on travel in 2009. Q2 and Q3 2008 - DOWNWARD SPIRAL. Las Vegas, once...

BUCOM Beat: Atlantis, The Palm - Dubai

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Tuesday, December 2, 2008. Atlantis, The Palm - Dubai. November 20 marked the grand opening of the most ambitious hotel property in the world, Atlantis, The Palm. In Dubai (the sister property to the famed Bahamas hotspot). Where else but Dubai could such an ambitious project garner so much attention while flying in the face of the world’s economic crisis? The amount of detailed and coordinated planning that went into the grand opening party may have just set the bar at its permanent height. With its inn...

BUCOM Beat: Obama Administration's policies on the Travel Industry

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Thursday, December 4, 2008. Obama Administration's policies on the Travel Industry. While there is much left to shake out from Barack Obama’s recent election, meetings and travel industry professionals have come out in support of the administration's moves thus far. If the Airlines are planning to beg for bailout like Detroit is now, they can forget about it. Obama can, and will, hang the private industry out to dry if necessary. Basically, the sum of all this is that under an Obama Administratio...One t...