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$547bn of US GDP in 2016 is Business Travel
New figures on what the visible tip of the iceberg contributes to US GDP have been published by the Global Business Travel Association Foundation. In 2016 each percentage point of business travel spend represented 74,000 jobs, $3.3 billion in wages and $1.3 billion in taxes. Last year businesses spent $424 billion on 514.4 million domestic trips. From Meetings & Conventions…
Benton Convention Center Renovation Complete
A $20 million renovation of the Benton Convention Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has just completed. An existing exhibition hall has been turned into a carpeted ballroom, and major structural, design and technology changes have been made across the venue both inside and out, not the least of which is a new sawtooth roofline. From Meetings & Conventions…
Events AV Team Films Knife Crime Legacy Project
The Royal College of Physicians meetings and events AV team is helping create a community legacy in London by assisting a knife crime awareness project. The scheme is creating a sculpture out of knives that have been surrendered to the police and decommissioned, and the AV team is filming a documentary about the project. From Meetpie.com…
Queensland Gets New Convention and Events Centre
The Laguna lifestyle development about to be built by George Group and Pointcorp in North Lakes above Brisbane is to feature a convention and events centre. The venue will boast five interconnected spaces and be able to host meetings of up to 720 delegates. The developers say its uniqueness will be as part of the wider Laguna community. From CIM Magazine…
US Lifts Large Electronics Ban on Final Airport
The four month US ban on carrying larger electronic devices in aircraft passenger cabins – a restriction placed on all flights from ten proscribed airports in the Middle East and North Africa – is now completely lifted. King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, became the last airport to implement new US security measures. From the Event…
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