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		<title>Meeting and Event Budgets in Lean Economic Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many believe that the economic meltdown of the late 2000s will forever change business, or at least make businesses more frugal during our lifetime. This is likely to be true for many industries, but some industries such as the travel industry rely heavily on the free-spending big budgets of other companies and organizations. This could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotel vs. Cruise Ship – Differences You Should Know About</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to book a meeting at sea, instead of at a hotel, here are some differences between the two venues that you should be aware of.
	Arrival time: It is common for meeting and event planners to arrive at a hotel a day or two before a big event, but with a cruise ship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting Planners &#8211; Automate These 7 Things To Increase Attendence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven Ways to Increase Event Attendance RIGHT NOW with a Fully-automated System:
	1. Send email invitations in addition to snail mail.
	Due to the costs and hassles of mail, increasing invitation frequency is not economical. With broadcast email you can schedule perfectly timed invitations to go out in sequence. Giving you more opportunity to attract registrants. An [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leveraging Relationships as a Meeting Planner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is all about relationships, and business can be too. Meeting and/or event planners can use this piece of knowledge to their advantage once they have recognized and fully accepted it. Contacts are often the difference between a successful event or off-site meeting and something that turns out to be less than stellar. Here are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Shuttles Really Necessary?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When planning corporate meetings and conventions, reserving shuttles to carry your participants from their hotels to the event location, from the event location to planned excursions or between multiple venues is generally taken for granted as part of the meeting planning process. Meeting and event planners automatically add a line for shuttle expenses to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benefits of Offering Self-Catering Accommodations to the SMERF Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 12:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you plan meetings and events for the SMERF (social, military, educational, religious, fraternal) market, you may want to consider adding self-catering accommodation options to the lodgings available for your events. While this is clearly a non-issue if your meeting or event is taking place on a cruise ship or if you are hosting your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a Ship Charter Your Best Option for Your Next Corporate Event?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#39;s a well known fact that cruising for groups, meetings and incentives offers outstanding value with savings of up to 40 percent off land-based venues, but is it right for you? According to a recent report in Corporate Meetings &#38; Incentives magazine, 34 percent of their readers had booked a cruise for an incentive event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>River Cruise Weddings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meeting and event planners often find themselves being asked to plan a variety of social and business events, regardless of their niche. Because of this, it is always a good idea to have a few tricks up your sleeve for when you choose to accept these projects. While you might be a corporate event planner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LANDRY &amp; KLING and SEASITE.COM  APPOINT MARK PHILLIPS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

LANDRY &#38; KLING and SEASITE.COM
&#160;APPOINT MARK PHILLIPS, FORMER STARCITE EXEC,  
AS CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER 


&#160;
MIAMI, FL (March 18, 2010) &#8211; Longtime cruise meeting and incentive specialist Landry &#38; Kling Inc. &#8211; who last fall launched Seasite.com &#8211; has appointed Mark Phillips to the new position of Chief Operating Officer. Phillips, founding team member at StarCite, Inc. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tapping into the SMERF Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first step in tapping into the SMERF market would &#8211; of course &#8211; be understanding exactly what the SMERF market is. This particular travel, meeting and event market consists of social, military, education, religious and fraternal organizations, hence the SMERF acronym. This growing market of potential clients is the bread and butter of some [...]]]></description>
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