BestCities plans strategic course for future

BestCities plans strategic course for future
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After 14 years of providing the meetings industry with their professional practices and service, BestCities Global Alliance is reviewing their five year strategic plan to make for a productive future.

The plan was taken to Chicago where BestCities recently joined with Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) to road-test key issues highlighted in the plan, through a ‘dialogue’ with a group of global meeting executives.

Aimed at identify customer insights into the future of convention and visitor bureaux as well as the importance and value of a CVB alliance, representatives from a broad range of associations were invited to participate in this free-flowing and open discussion.

Attendees were hosted by BestCities board chair, Karen Bolinger and moderated by PCMA chief operating officer Sherrif Karamat.

Discussions covered a range of issues affecting the international meetings industry including the value of convention bureaux in today’s market and the role they need to play in a vastly evolving global business climate to help associations meet their challenges.

The collaboration between PCMA and BestCities as a group was a first, according Karamat, who added he was “pleased to have a role in facilitating these discussions.”

Moving into their fifteenth year, BestCities noted they will address focus on association meetings and the support and benefits offered to an association.  

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