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California offers a highly diverse and vibrant economy, fabulous resorts and hotels, an abundance of unique traditional and unconventional meeting spaces and an unparalleled variety of stunning landscapes.

Texas’ offerings for corporate and incentive gatherings are as big and diverse as the state, with many cities featuring a broad range of attractive options and settings.

Featuring outstanding lodging and meeting spaces, plenty of year-round sunshine, a plethora of outdoor activities and spectacular scenery, Arizona is one of the most sought-after places for association meetings.

As a meeting destination, Florida avails an impressive variety of backdrops.

They’re separated by 438 miles of striking, but quiet, mostly barren desert, yet Las Vegas and Reno both boast a plethora of exciting, vibrant and unique options for financial and insurance meetings.

Meeting planners already had a multitude of responsibilities that needed to be fulfilled promptly and efficiently, but the COVID-19 pandemic added an entirely new dimension that demands unparalleled flexibility.

The magic of the Southwest’s desert cities, with their warm weather and strikingly beautiful landscapes, provides a special allure for meetings and events that is even more enticing this year as the COVID-19 pandemic recedes.

Las Vegas continues to reign as one of the world’s top meetings destinations.

Sustainability continues to be a significant worldwide issue, and though the meetings and events industry has focused on it extensively, much more work needs to be done.

Fifteen-year-old Frank Passanante was looking forward to vacationing with his family at Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu in the early ’80s, but he had absolutely no idea that it would provide the initial spark to his successful 33-year career.