You're planning a meeting. How has the recession changed the information that your meeting attendees need? I answered that question in a webinar for MPI, Meeting Professionals International. Click hear to watch. I gave my usual economic outlook presentation, then added some comments specifically for MPI members. (I customize virtually all of my speeches.)
Some key ideas:
- Credit availability is vital if your audience consists of business executives or owners.
- The housing crisis isn't really actionable outside of housing and its supply chain. Even though it's key cocktail party chatter, don't go overboard here.
- Economic contingency planning for the recovery is vital for businesses, non-profits and government agencies.
If you're planning meetings, you should already know this. MPI is THE source for professional development in this field.
Question/comment tied in together: when I lived in Beaverton some years ago, I once quipped on the proliferation of 7/11's that i wanted one "at the foot of my parking lot." I joked of course. I soon got one. As you know there is dminishing returns on everything when you over saturate any market with anything.
Casinos: for a while I managed an off-site sales office for a large resort/casino in your area, then watched then bubble up and wonder about the 7/11 syndrome. Since I left,plagued by curiosity, a Wharton business background and numbers, numbers, etc, I ask you this.
Has your area become over built with casinos - yet? What is the tipping point? More importantly, MPI wise, since Casinos are the "sugar" that draws the Meetings business to hotels/resorts venue - how has this affected the economic balance/consumption given the delicacy of the current economy climate?
Posted by: Roger Fulton | February 05, 2009 at 01:54 PM