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A night away? We sure did pay.

Aaron Wolowiec

According to the STR report, New York City boasted the highest room rates in 2014, where hotel guests paid an average of $263 a night. And Nashville, Denver and Atlanta were the hotspots for revenue growth in 2014. All this said, consumers don’t seem to mind, which is good news for event planners. percent to 64.4

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Quiet: An Association Mavens Interview with New York Times Bestselling Author Susan Cain

Association Mavens

During this interview talks with me about her book and what she’ll be presenting to Association Executives at ASAE’s 2013 Annual Conference in Atlanta during her opening keynote. Note : Instead of a Skype video interview, Susan and I had a good old fashioned phone conversation. Other Downloads: MP3 Version.

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Funding Initiative to Support Black-Owned Businesses Hits the Local Level

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cities: Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York City, and Raleigh, North Carolina. This week, AEO officially launched the Tapestry Project Action Lab, which takes the larger project and applies it to businesses at the local level. The association will bring the Action Lab to five major U.S.

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Local Media Association Brings Accelerator Program to Publishers of Color

Associations Now

Five big-city papers— The Atlanta Voice , The Dallas Weekly , New York Amsterdam News , Houston Defender , and The Washington Informer —are pilot papers in the initiative.

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ASAE Concludes First-Ever Hybrid 2021 ASAE Annual Meeting

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More than 500 attendees participated in the in-person Pop-UPs, hosted by the Atlanta CVB; Visit Charlotte; Choose Chicago; Destination Cleveland; Experience Columbus; Visit Dallas; Destination DC; Greater Fort Lauderdale CVB: Discover The Palm Beaches; and Discover Puerto Rico. Atlanta CVB. Strategic Partners. Choose Chicago.

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Pop-Up Events: The Next Trend for Associations?

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More recently, it opened a 16,000-square-foot Target Wonderland in New York City for two weeks during last year’s holiday season. In March 2015, the National Peanut Board held “ The Perfectly Powerful Peanut Pop-Up ” for three days in New York City.

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Association Chapters Help People With Alzheimer’s Connect With Art

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An evaluation [PDF] of MoMA’s Meet Me program by researchers at New York University found positive changes in mood in both the program’s participants and their caregivers. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, told The Atlanta Journal Constitution. The Carolos Museum offers a Museum Moments program for people with early memory loss.

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