Successful Meetings - September 2008 - (Page 46) Convention > Where All That Glitters May Bring Gold Centers new gates at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport. “It’s pretty dynamic right now,” observes Andy Albright, president and CEO of National Agents Alliance (NAA), a Burlington, NC-based national association for sellers of mortgage insurance. NAA is the very first organization booked into the new convention center, with an estimated 2,000 members coming for an annual leadership conference September 12 through 14. “The center is awesome, but more important, Raleigh is a name city now, growing in importance,” Albright adds. “Since our members volunteer to come on their own dime, the attraction factor is key.” Raleigh’s new appeal also has attracted the annual convention of the Phoenix Society’s World Burn Congress, which in October is bringing 650 attendees and The Raleigh Convention Center City Bonds Marriott City Center exhibitors to a conference focusing on the needs of burn survivors. “Raleigh has changed tremendously, especially in the past year,” says Pam Peterson, associate director of the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors, based in Grand Rapids, MI. “And the convention center is Raleigh’s crown jewel. It’s absolutely spectacular.”
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