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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.
This fountain honors an Incan king in a city square of Cusco near our meeting site I’m in Peru with Tourism Cares for a restoration project at Cusco’s Mercado Central de San Pedro park, where we’ll be removing grafitti, painting its walls and planting flowers in old flower beds long filled with trash. We’re also […]
The Masters is almost as much about traditions as it is about great golf. Its champions are set apart forever, and, by tradition, select the menu for the champion’s dinner the following year. Both its pimento cheese and egg salad sandwiches are traditions, as is the green jacket that Augusta National members wear on […]
When the Augusta Convention and Visitors Bureau invited Small Market Meetings editor Vickie Mitchell to come for a preview of their new downtown convention center during the week of The Masters, she knew just what to do. She invited me to go in her place. Vickie had done a similar trip to Augusta a few […]
Courtesy Louisville CVB LOUISVILLE, Ky. — “Yesterday, we were rocking in here,” said Tara Walton, director of tourism for the Greater Birmingham Convention and Visitors Bureau. “We had great appointments. We started with 36 appointments and we had four more walk up. And Mac, since you just walked up, you make five!” I had stopped […]
On Monday evening, March 19, the Tunica RiverPark welcomed more than 200 STS Spring Meeting delegates and guests for one of its earliest re-opening events since the devastating flood of last spring. It has not been even a year since the Mississippi River extended its muddy grasp high into the Tunica shoreline and sent water, […]
The bank travel industry made a very strong showing in Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 6-9 at BankTravel 2012.
Graceland is an iconic stop for Elvis fans the world over During our BankTravel event at Graceland on February 7, Memphis CVB president Kevin Kane told me that he personally escorts rock and roll dignitaries to this mecca for musicians. For instance, he brought Elvis Costello over here and said that Costello removed his […]
"It's our time to shine," according to Travel South USA executive director Liz Bittner.
Left to right: Terry Dale, Lesley Stahl and John Stachnik Photo by Matthew Minucci, courtesy USTOA MARCO ISLAND, Fla. — John Stachnik won the Iron Man contest at the United States Tour Operators Association (USTOA) Annual Conference and Marketplace, Dec. 11-13 at the Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort, Golf Club and Spa in Marco Island, […]
Numerous groups toured Woodford Reserve Distillery the day we held our planning retreat there. On November 4, we held our annual editorial planning retreat at Woodford Reserve Distillery in Woodford County, Kentucky. This is the third time we’ve held this retreat at this historic central Kentucky site over the past decade or so. Woodford […]
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