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Travel & event planning

1111 Lincoln Road – Miami’s New Hip Event Venue

On February 5, 2014 by

By Kevin Woo Our culture is filled with mononyms. Elvis is the king of rock and roll, and Bono is the face of fusion philanthropy. With a little thought we can come up with others such as Cher, Madonna, Twiggy, Penn and Teller. You get the idea. If we take liberties with the exact definition

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Trophy Tour To Switzerland

On November 6, 2012 by

The annual Switzerland Meeting Trophy, designed for prospective meeting planners, is a week-long journey through Swiss cities of Bern, Gstaad, Montreux and Grandvaux     By Kevin Woo One+ | November 05, 2012 BY THE TIME A MEETING PLANNER’S PLANE IS ON FINAL APPROACH AND THE WHEELS TOUCH DOWN, chances are they’ve already begun to put

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Wipe Off The Rust In Pittsburgh

On May 18, 2012 by

Last June, more than 80 members of the Society of American Travel Writers visited Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to see the city’s unbelievable transformation first-hand. By Kevin Woo  | One+ May 2012 WHAT’S ON YOUR BUCKET LIST? AN AFRICAN SAFARI? SKYDIVING? Climbing Mount Everest? Taking part in a religious retreat in Nepal? How about a visit to Pittsburgh

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Preservation is Everything in Buffalo

On April 9, 2012 by

Last October, the National Trust for Historic Preservation held its annual convention in Buffalo, where attendees had a chance to make up their own minds about the city. By Kevin Woo  One+ | April 2012 BUFFALO, N.Y., HAS SUFFERED FROM AN IDENTITY CRISIS FOR MANY YEARS. AND WHO COULD BLAME IT? In the past four years, Forbes has named it

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Budapest is Central and Ideal

On March 20, 2012 by

Since 1989, Budapest has been attracting meeting professionals outside of Central Europe by investing resources to improve its infrastructure. By Kevin Woo  One+ | December 8, 2011 IF RODNEY DANGERFIELD WERE ASKED TO DESCRIBE BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, HE MIGHT PARAPHRASE HIS SIGNATURE LINE AND JOKE THAT THE CITY DOESN’T GET ANY RESPECT. It might be more

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Houston Hosts Munch Madness

On March 18, 2012 by

  Houston’s Local Organizing Committee and 32 area restaurants competed for the opportunity to cater at the Big Dance Concert Series during the 2011 college basketball Final Four By Kevin Woo  | February 2012  THIS PAST SPRING, HOUSTON HOSTED THE NCAA FINAL FOUR where the best U.S. college basketball teams played for the national championship.

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Houston’s Southern Culture on the Rise

On March 8, 2012 by

 The American Association of Museums conference in Houston last year was the most welcoming event the organization has ever experienced. By Kevin Woo  One+ | March 5, 2012 WHEN YOU THINK OF THE WORLD’S GREAT CULTURAL CENTERS, CITIES SUCH AS CAIRO, LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON, D.C., ARE LIKELY TO IMMEDIATELY COME TO MIND.

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Seoul Searching

On March 7, 2012 by

  Delegates of the International Korean Adoptee Associations conference experienced Seoul and its diverse heritage and left with a greater understanding of themselves. By Kevin Woo One+ | December 10, 2010 A TRIP TO SEOUL CHANGED LIBBY AND DAVID GLUCK FOREVER. The couple had planned the visit for years. They studied  pictures, day­ dreamed and

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Science and Technology

Getting the Message Out Using Social Media

On March 7, 2012 by

According to one Northern California-based meeting planner, social media marketing is key to driving up event attendance. By Kevin Woo  One + | February 2010 NOT LONG AGO THE PHRASE “GUERRILLA MARKETING” REFERRED TO UNCONVENTIONAL MARKETING PRACTICES that relied primarily on ingenuity and imagination—think Apple’s 1984 George Orwell commercial that launched the Macintosh computer—or ingenious

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Youth For Change

On March 7, 2012 by

The 2008 National Service-Learning Conference in Minneapolis shows how service-learning can build academic skills and citizenship among young adults, as well as communicating the need for involvement within local and global communities. By Kevin Woo One + | October 2009 “THE WORLD IS PASSING THROUGH TROUBLOUS TIMES,” an Amiens priest once said. “The young people

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Insider Knowledge in Beijing

On March 7, 2012 by

  To tackle a challenge of finding things do in Beijing, a planner reverse engineered the process of identifying the cool and hip places for a GLBT group to visit. By Kevin Woo  | May/June 2010  CHINA’S HISTORY CAN BE TRACED AS FAR BACK AS 2100 B.C., but documenting the major events that defined the

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Abu Dhabi – Middle East Central

On March 7, 2012 by

By Kevin Woo  One+ | January 3, 2011 OIL AND WATER DON’T MIX, SAYS THE CLICHE. BUT THAT WASN’T THE CASE for the organizers of the recent Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC). Abu Dhabi, the UAE’s largest emirate, is a T-shaped island city that sits a quarter-mile off the mainland. Oil and

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Breaking Bread in Portland

On March 6, 2012 by

The International Association of Culinary Professionals’ 2010 conference shows that food can be the first step in bridging a divide between different countries, religions and generations. By Kevin Woo  September 2010 KAMAL MOUZAWAK WANTS TO BRING PEACE TO THE MIDDLE EAST, and his weapons  of choice include flatbread,  baked  goods and chickpeas.  Strange ammunition you

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