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Meeting Sites South Florida Miami Beach shines; below, The National Croquet Center in Palm Beach County ESSENTIAL TOOL BOX Convention Facilities: FORT LAUDERDALE Greater Fort Lauderdale / Broward County Convention Center, 199,526 sf of dedicated meeting space, with 32 meeting rooms, largest holds 6,000 theater-style. GREATER MIAMI Miami Convention Center / James L. Knight Int’l Center, 28,000 sf of dedicated meeting space, with 37 meeting rooms, largest holds 5,000 theater-style; Miami Beach Convention Center, 502,848 sf of dedicated meeting space, with 82 meeting rooms, largest holds 13,300 theater-style; Coconut Grove Expo Center, 150,000 sf of dedicated meeting space, with 5 meeting rooms, largest holds 5,400 theater-style. PALM BEACH COUNTY Palm Beach County Convention Center, 350,000 sf total space with 23 meeting rooms; Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 2,200-seat concert hall, 300-seat theater, and 1,000-seat outdoor amphitheater; Cohen Pavilion, with 10,440-sf ballroom and 5,000-sf rehearsal hall; and South Florida Expo Center, 150,000 sf total space. For complete listings, visit Facility Quick Search at www.mimegasite.com. GROUND-BREAKING NEWS: Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach are on their way to building long-awaited convention center hotels. LIVIN’ LARGE: Reborn and refurbished shopping and dining options along European-style avenues are increasingly attractive event and entertainment program possibilities, with exciting happenings in Clematis District in West Palm Beach, Los Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, and South Beach in Miami. Meanwhile, the entire region, stretching from Jupiter to the Florida Keys, is seeing the arrival of new, luxury properties, ideal for incentives and medium-sized high-end meetings. By Ed Schmidt Jr. SUCCESSFUL MEETINGS DECEMBER 2007 mimegasite.com 63
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Successful Meetings - December 2007

Successful Meetings - December 2007
Contents
Editor's Note
Special Report
Research
Industry Trends
2008 Meeting Events
Planner Spotlight
Websites of the Month
Mouth for Sale
Technology Talk
Food & Beverage
Pre-Event
On Site
Pre-Event
Tools of the Trade
Goodbye, Booth Babes
Five Tips to Improve Your Golf Events
When Crime Pays
Office for Hire
More Miles for Your Money
Places & Spaces
South Florida
Biloxi / Mississippi Gulf Coast
Fort Worth
Monterey
Beijing
Gurus
Special Supplement: Hawaii Island-by-Island Guide

Successful Meetings - December 2007

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