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These four destinations represent the highest concentration of international association headquarters. So the partnership has the opportunity to evolve into a true platform for sharing knowledge on global association meeting trends with the rest of the industry, and not just sales leads among themselves.

As IATA states in its report, “Airline passengers want what they want. Sometimes they want the same thing. And sometimes they don’t.”

For corporate travelers, there needs to be more transparency and better established roles of responsibility for open bookings. On the leisure side, travel agencies need to be easier to find based on their areas of expertise.

Gray and his crew at Museum Hack understand that memorable experiences underlie the best travel experiences.

Wade has been in tours and activities for many years and realizes that experiential travel is something that happens organically and over time rather than by brands attempting to go experiential without a real foundation or understanding of the sector.

Macau is an example of an emerging meetings destination that will see U.S. market growth on the backs of its U.S. hotel partners like Sheraton and St. Regis, but the challenges are significant due to the region's reputation as the "Las Vegas of the East."

As storefront agencies have disappeared, home-based agents have picked up the slack in the travel agency community. One can't help but wonder, however, if this trend has contributed to the relative invisibility of travel agents to most Americans.