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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.
More than 3,000 travel industry delegates met in St. Louis, Missouri, January 10-13, for the 2015 American Bus Association (ABA) Marketplace. While many of its members also run intercity and school bus operations, ABA is the largest membership organization for the group tour and charter industry in North America.
The mood at the recent 2014 USTOA Annual Conference, held December 5-7, reflected a continuing "doubling down" mind-set of many top-tier travel companies.
Mac Lacy recounts his experience at Lake Tahoe during Travel Alliance Partners' annual TAP Dance meeting in Reno, Nevada.
Duane Parrish, the current chairman for Travel South USA, feels his state's participation in Travel South USA creates marketing and sales opportunities.
Travel South USA is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2015, and executive director Liz Bittner has a pretty good idea why.
Travel South International Showcase drew 430 participants to New Orleans December 1-4, including 125 international inbound tour operators.
One of the primary advantages of attending the Select Traveler Conference each year is learning first-hand about new travel destinations for groups. In the case of Nashville this year, many travel planners are already sending groups to America’s favorite city for music, but there are many new developments in Nashville that planners will be seeing […]
Returning from Jordan last week on Royal Jordanian Airlines, I enjoyed a cosmic moment in my life. It started uneventfully. In a rush to get on the road to the airport in Amman that morning, I threw my headphones into a small bag I usually take on the plane. But for this trip, I had […]
More than 300 delegates, including faith-based travel planners from 25 states, gathered in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, August 5-7 for the 2014 Going On Faith Conference.
Travel Alliance Partners (TAP) held its annual TAP Dance in Reno, June 1-5.
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