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Resort Meetings SEEING IS BELIEVING By Terri Hardin terri.hardin@nielsen.com How often do media images from TV and the movies impact the way you think about a destination? Chances are, if you haven’t been to Hawaii, Acapulco, the Caribbean, or Vermont for a few years, you aren’t getting the whole picture It’s the weekend, and you’re watching old movies on TV. Elvis is getting the girls in Hawaii and in Acapulco; Sean Connery is catching villains in the Caribbean; Bing Crosby is crooning away in Vermont. But while these movies are classics, the destinations in which they take place are vital, modernized, and deserve to be revisited. Successful Meetings takes a look at these destinations to see what changes have occurred since Elvis, “Bond,” and Bing made us love them. Girls! (1962), and Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966), the King portrayed a tourism professional—tour guide, charter boat captain, and helicopter operator. In fact, as Kimo Jenkins, a founder of the destination marketing company Island Partners Hawaii points out, in Blue Hawaii, Elvis gets involved with a company that’s rewarding its top SUCCESSFUL MEETINGS ROCK-A-HULA, BABY Ironically, in his three Hawaiian pictures—Blue Hawaii (1961), Girls! Girls! mimegasite.com 50 JANUARY 2008

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Successful Meetings - January 2008

Successful Meetings - January 2008
Contents
Editor's Note
Associations
Research
Events
Suppliers
Associations
On the Record
Associations
Suppliers
Planner Spotlight
Websites of the Month
Management Matters
Meeting the Law
Personal Success
Mouth for Sale
Food & Beverage
Professional Development
On Site
Pre-Event
Tools of the Trade
Veggie Power
Tennis, Anyone?
Seeing is Believing
The Wild Green Yonder
Game On
Places & Spaces
Galveston & Texas Beaches
Greater Seattle
Singapore
Gurus

Successful Meetings - January 2008