HSMAI Affordable Meetings® Highlights

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HSMAI's Affordable Meetings® is the ideal forum where meeting planners, properties and suppliers come together to do business. The two-day exposition and conference program takes place annually in three locations across the country, attracting thousands of top-notch meeting professionals.

A wide variety of exhibitors who service the industry, including hotels and resorts, Convention and Visitors Bureaus, Destination Management companies, Unique meeting sites, Technology companies, and Industry suppliers, find meeting professionals ready to do business at HSMAI's Affordable Meetings.
Year-after-year, the highly-acclaimed trade exposition is a main attraction for attendees who represent all segments of the industry including: corporate; independent; and association planners; all looking to meet and network with knowledgeable suppliers who are determined to help produce cost-effective meetings and assist with purchasing decisions.

For meeting and event planners seeking to hone their skills as well as enhance their professional career, HSMAI's Affordable Meetings offers an unparalleled educational component of seminars and workshops with industry experts on a broad range of topics such as meeting contracts, site selection, negotiation skills, budgeting, effective communication, food and beverage selections, technology, marketing and more.

HSMAI's 2007 program concludes with the National program September 5 and 6 at the Washington DC Convention Center. Celebrating its 18th annual event, the National program, which is expected to attract 1,700 meeting planners and 475 exhibiting companies, is the largest of the three-show Affordable Meetings program.

For more information, visit www.affordable meetings.com.

For 2008, the lineup will be AFFORDABLE MEETINGS MID-AMERICA, April 9-10, at Chicago's Navy Pier; AFFORDABLE MEETINGS WEST, Returning to Southern California, June 11-12, at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach California, and Affordable Meetings National, September 10-11.

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