New Ideas for Bringing Your Meeting
Back to a Familiar Location
Kathy Smith, CMP
Meetings Director
The American
Association of
Neuromuscular &
Electrodiagnostic
Medicine, AANEM
Our Panelist
Jeff Hewitt, Vice
President
Business, CDME
Development
Visit Savannah
Our Discussion
How to best know
what’s new
How to theme your
event with the
destination in mind
How to find what is
unique
Who to know to
make it all happen
How to borrow
brilliance
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meeting attendees?
Find what’s new?
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• Google alerts
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email newsletters,
magazines and newspapers
Uncover what’s unique?
• Follow blogs by destination writers
• Leisure travel communications
• CVB and DMC contacts
Theme with the
destination in mind
• Parlay local events and
happenings
• Work with a DMC
• Incorporate
complimentary visuals
and verbiage
Borrow from what’s
been done well before?
• Industry events
• Planner chat groups
• Attend FAMs
• Be a resource yourself
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to make it all happen?
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