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		<title>Letter to the Editor: Why I  Chose ABA over NTA</title>
		<link>http://destinationmarketer.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/letter-to-the-editor-why-i-dropped-my-nta-membership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Reply to our last post from Mel Tye, Founder and CEO Tye Tours. I did not drop my NTA membership out of protest, but because the value of the benefits no longer matched the money invested for my NTA dues. The China inbound program was only the most recent benefit that went from a benefit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=destinationmarketer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7361331&amp;post=645&amp;subd=destinationmarketer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ABA Report from Grapevine, TX. The Elephant in the Room Rears Its Trunk.</title>
		<link>http://destinationmarketer.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/634/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by Jake Steinman, Founder and CEO,  NAJ Group, producers of www.thetouroperator.com . 2012’s Take-Aways: While NAJ’s objective at the ABA Marketplace was to introduce operators to new features on www.thetouroperator.com, we also conducted an informal survey with all 33 tour operators with whom we met and spoke with scores of suppliers and destinations during over a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=destinationmarketer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7361331&amp;post=634&amp;subd=destinationmarketer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NTA Show Review: Girding for A Showdown with ABA next year?</title>
		<link>http://destinationmarketer.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/nta-show-review-girding-for-a-showdown-with-aba-next-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NAJ GROUP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOP TRENDS AT NTA CONVENTION DEC 5-9, LAS VEGAS: By Jake Steinman, Founder and CEO, North American Journeys, producers of www.thetouroperator.com DMOs as new idea facilitators … appeal of smaller destinations … and the move toward merger of NTA and ABA shows   NTA Rolls The Dice In Las Vegas. Maybe it was fitting that NTA, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=destinationmarketer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7361331&amp;post=626&amp;subd=destinationmarketer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SUMMARY OF DEC 14 BRAND USA BOARD MEETING-</title>
		<link>http://destinationmarketer.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/summary-of-brand-usa-board-meeting-december-14-20122/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NAJ GROUP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Industry to Get Preview of Brand USA Campaign Launch in March: In a meeting during which the key buzz word was “robust,” and the pre-holiday mood of its participants seemed to be the same—it is difficult, though, to determine this accurately on the basis of a call-in conference meeting in which no one sees one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=destinationmarketer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7361331&amp;post=599&amp;subd=destinationmarketer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THIS WEEK&#8217;S HEADLINES:</title>
		<link>http://destinationmarketer.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/this-weeks-headlines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NAJ GROUP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week’s headlines: Director Charged with Defrauding State through Film Tax Credits: New CEO Wins Reno Bureau Position By Default.    YPartnership To Merge With MMG Worldwide:   Chicago  Reveals Re-Branding and Marketing Campaign Director Charged with Defrauding State through Film Tax Credits:  Second-tier movie director Daniel Adams has been charged in Boston municipal court [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=destinationmarketer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7361331&amp;post=571&amp;subd=destinationmarketer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A FOND FAREWELL TO HELEN MARANO. A BUREAUCRAT WE COULD LOVE</title>
		<link>http://destinationmarketer.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/a-fond-farewell-to-helen-marano-a-bureaucrat-you-could-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NAJ GROUP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Helen Marano takes her irreverant wit accross the Pond. (This photo of Harrods is where you may find Helen on off hours.)When it was announced last month that Helen Marano, director of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Travel and Tourism Industries (OTTI), was leaving her post to accept the newly created position of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=destinationmarketer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7361331&amp;post=554&amp;subd=destinationmarketer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This month on the Destination Marketer</title>
		<link>http://destinationmarketer.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/this-month-on-the-destination-marketer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NAJ GROUP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ohio Launches Movie-and-TV Connected Site: The state tourism division is launching a website (www.sceneinohio.com) to showcase Ohio attractions and locations restaurants and destinations that have been featured in movies and on television. The interactive site currently has more than 50 locations, but users are encouraged to add to the site’s content. The website’s main feature [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=destinationmarketer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7361331&amp;post=516&amp;subd=destinationmarketer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing Outlook Forum Summary-Part 1:</title>
		<link>http://destinationmarketer.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/marketing-outlook-forum-summary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NAJ GROUP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARKETING OUTLOOK FORUM OVERVIEW-PART 1 Delegates to the U.S. Travel Association’s Marketing Outlook Forum held Oct. 26-27 at the Omni Fort Worth hotel in Ft. Worth, Texas were treated to a 360-degree view of various ways in which the travel and tourism industry has changed in the past twelve months and a glimpse at the direction in which we might [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=destinationmarketer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7361331&amp;post=501&amp;subd=destinationmarketer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ETS: Session Summary #4: Engagement Unleashed: Best Ways to Get People Engaged in Your Brand.</title>
		<link>http://destinationmarketer.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/ets-session-summary-4-engagement-unleashed-best-ways-to-get-people-engaged-in-your-brand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NAJ GROUP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engagement Unleashed:  What’s the best way to get people engaged in your brand? What steps do you need to take? How do you measure success? A panel of representatives from social media companies answered these and other questions at an eTourism Summit afternoon breakout session on “Engagement Unleashed: Maximizing Engagement and ROI.” &#160; Here are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=destinationmarketer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7361331&amp;post=492&amp;subd=destinationmarketer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report on today&#8217;s CTP Meeting: HUGE COMING OUT PARTY AT WTM</title>
		<link>http://destinationmarketer.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/report-on-todays-ctp-meeting-huge-coming-out-party-at-wtm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 12—The announcement by the Corporation for Travel Promotion (CTP) of a new Brand USA will take place at four different scheduled events over two days at the upcoming (Nov. 7-11) World Travel Market (WTM), it was reported this afternoon at the regular monthly meeting of the CTP board of directors.  A meeting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=destinationmarketer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7361331&amp;post=486&amp;subd=destinationmarketer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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