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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.
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On Friday, November 5, we took our annual editorial planning retreat back to Midway, Kentucky, a delightful little town that sits between Frankfort and Lexington in horse country. Our retreats are always in late fall and have been held in places like Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill and the Beaumont Inn in Harrodsburg, Labrot and […]
When we pulled into the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, Alabama on a Sunday afternoon, there were three wedding parties set up on the grounds. As it turns out, this is the place to get married on Alabama’s Gulf Coast. Leon Maisel, president of the Mobile Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau, told me the next […]
From our homebase at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, we made a daytrip today down the coast and inland a bit to Foley, Alabama. Someone had told us to check out Stacey”s Rexall Drugs, and to maybe do a lunch stop there. It sounded like our kind of place. There is a huge Tanger […]
I was invited to join a good friend, Ron McConnell, and others from the Mobile Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau for dinner and a round of golf during their annual Slice and Hook program for meeting planners during a getaway to the Alabama Gulf Coast. We joined their group of 20 or so meeting planners […]
On Friday, October 8, my wife, Kim, and I took the afternoon to enjoy the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Kentucky. Throughout the course of the week, the games had been drawing increasingly large crowds as equestrians from dozens of countries around the world joined fans from those countries and America at the […]
Play hard? No problems there. Especially in a city that was getting its groove on at its annual Red River Revel festival, one of Louisiana’s biggest and baddest music and arts events. The entire delegation was taken to the festival, treated to all they could enjoy in the way of regional foods and beverages and […]
There were two distinct sides to the first Small Market Meetings Conference held October 4-6 in sunny Shreveport, Louisiana. The first was all business, the second was all fun. The meeting planners who attended from 18 states did a superb job of accommodating both. ‘Work hard, play hard. That’s what we tell them,’ said conference […]
On Monday, August 16, our staff met for a breakfast at the Cracker Barrel restaurant on Newtown Pike in Lexington. We had two reasons for this fun-filled gathering–the first was to enjoy a great breakfast together, and the second was to kick off our Cracker Barrel Photo Contest in The Group Travel Leader. We’re partnering […]
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