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Mac Lacy
Mac Lacy is president and publisher of The Group Travel Leader Inc. Mac has been traveling and writing professionally ever since a two-month backpacking trip through Europe upon his graduation with a journalism degree from the University of Evansville in 1978.
The Miami Marine Stadium received a massive cleanup when Tourism Cares brought 325 volunteers to the city May 29-30 for Tourism Cares for Miami.
On March 30, for the first time ever, we assembled a group of about 150 travel planners for banks, chambers of commerce and alumni associations for face-to-face conversations at the Select Traveler Conference in Huntsville, Alabama. Our kickoff program at the conference was the popular breakout session where planners sit and share ideas in a […]
At the NTA Convention held February 16-20 in Los Angeles, outgoing NTA chairman Mark Hoffmann detailed the association's search process to replace former president Lisa Simon.
More than 500 delegates attended the first Travel South Showcase ever held in West Virginia, February 23-26.
More than 185 delegates, including a dozen in a delegation from Brazil's tour operator trade association,gathered for the 2014 Receptive Services Association of America Summit.
During a week when ice skates replaced golf shoes as the footwear of choice, more than 820 attendees from countries across the globe gathered in Scottsdale, Arizona, for the United States Tour Operators Association’s 2013 Annual Conference and Marketplace, held December 3-7. At their opening session and a subsequent media briefing held December 5, USTOA […]
More than 350 delegates, including 90 international travel buyers from 14 countries, joined Travel South USA in Nashville, Tennessee, at the new Omni Nashville Hotel for the second annual International Showcase on December 3-6. Travel South USA launched the new international inbound conference last year in association with Rhythms of the South, an inbound partnership […]
Liz Bittner All trails lead to West Virginia,” replied Liz Bittner, executive director of Travel South USA, when asked what her organization’s domestic emphasis was this year. “This is the first time we’ve ever had Travel South Showcase in the state, and we’re excited to be bringing such an influential group with us to Charleston […]
Betty Carver When West Virginia and its capital city of Charleston signed up to host the state’s first-ever Travel South Showcase, it resulted in an “all hands on deck” response from the state’s travel industry. Three months before the event, more than 40 West Virginia destinations and sites had climbed on board to take part […]
The 2013 Going On Faith Conference was held in one of America’s iconic faith-based destinations when more than 300 delegates gathered.
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