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Preparing Your Association for AI

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Additionally, you might consider what new products or services you could provide that might also increase your non-dues revenue with the help of AI. San Diego, California Orlando, Florida Seattle, Washington Let’s say these all sound appealing, but you want to get a bit more granular. The results?

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Las Vegas, Other Resort Cities Bear Brunt of Federal Travel Cuts

Associations Now

Following several high-profile conference scandals, federal agencies have shied away from hosting meetings in resort destinations like Las Vegas, according to a USA Today analysis. government spent $92,736 on Las Vegas hotel rooms during fiscal year 2013. Agencies spent $57.5 That’s down from a high of roughly $2.5

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Why Nevada Doesn’t Have the Powerball

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The Las Vegas Review-Journal last year reported that legislative attempts to allow for a state lottery had failed nearly 30 times since 1975 , even though about 70 percent of Nevada residents want a state lottery, according to a 2009 survey. The group’s president, Virginia Valentine, told Vegas Inc.

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CEIR Report: Tradeshows Continue Growth Streak

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Every main metric used in CEIR’s reporting showed an improvement, though some, like real revenue (which rose 5.4 After a weak period during the economic crisis, CEIR’s total index for the exhibition-industry growth has remained ahead of the growth rate of the gross domestic product for each of the past five quarters.

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Can You Better Serve Your Tradeshow Market?

Associations Now

Earlier this week as I was catching up on the meetings and tradeshow-related reading that I missed while out on vacation over the holidays, I came across an interesting article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. If you’re not thinking about how to better serve your market, there’s likely someone else out there who is.

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Audit Confirms Lavish IRS Conference Spending

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The embattled Internal Revenue Service has come under fire again this week—this time for failing to control its spending on conferences, a new inspector general’s report said. In particular, the IG scrutinized expenses incurred as part of a three-day IRS management conference in Anaheim, California, in 2010. Last summer, the U.S.