Associate members, here is your opportunity to ensure booth space for the 2011 RCMA World Conference and Exposition, which will be held January 25-28 in Tampa. If you recruit or sponsor a new religious meeting planner into full RCMA membership by June 1, you will receive the early mailing of the Booth Space Contract for RCMA 2011. The early mailing will be sent out June 2. This is your chance to introduce religious meeting planners to all that RCMA has to offer while securing your spot for RCMA 2011.

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To submit membership nominations, click here.

The Convention Industry Council has launched what could be the most ambitious study ever on the economic impact of the meetings industry, sending out surveys April 1 to meeting planners at its 32 member organizations. Find out what the CIC hopes to accomplish with the survey.

The worst year for the exhibition industry in recent history—2009—ended with an overall decline of 12.5 percent, representing declines in attendance, number of exhibiting companies, net square footage of exhibit space booked, and revenues, according to the CEIR Index, published by the Center for Exhibition Industry Research.

Read about that and more in a special report on the economy’s impact on meeting planning.

After sitting empty for 30 years, The Baptist Temple at Temple University in Philadelphia, built in 1891, reopens this week as a meeting and event space after a $30 million renovation. Find out what the facility has to offer.