Meeting Traveler's Magazine Joins Meetings & Conventions' Summit
WINTER PARK, FL, October 27, 2008. Meeting Traveler magazine has announced a new partnership with Meetings & Conventions magazine for its 2009 Private Meetings Summit. With the addition of Meetings & Conventions, a leader in the meetings industry, the number and quality of meeting planner buyers will greatly expand for the 2009 Summit - promising an event not to be missed.
The 2009 Private Meetings Summit, set for the Eden Roc Resort in Miami Beach April 19-22, 2009, is an appointment-based annual event uniting leading luxury hotels with the travel industry's most prominent meeting and incentive planners to build relationships and book business.
"In today's market, partnerships are a means of delivering more value to customers. With the addition of Meetings & Conventions magazine, we're able to increase the profile of our great event. This enables us to bring our luxury hotel partners more business from the industries they care about: pharmaceutical, medical, associations, Fortune 1000 companies and more," says Lisa Theodore, Publisher of Meeting Traveler and the upscale travel guide Resorts & Great Hotels.
"We are pleased to partner with Meeting Traveler on the Private Meetings Summit," says Bernard Schraer, Group Publisher of Meetings & Conventions magazine. "By combining resources, we will give our supplier partners yet another opportunity for one-on-one business exchanges with high-volume meeting and incentive planners."
Registration is now open for meeting planners at www.PrivateMeetingsSummit.com.
Space is limited.




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