Online Exclusive: Research Highlights Who's On The Speaking Circuit
In 2007, the National Speakers Association (NSA), conducted a comprehensive study into the personal attributes, professional practices, business models and income trends of professional speakers. Marsha Mardock, NSA director of communications, provides an overview of the survey results. [
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20 Must Use Websites For '08
From the best places online to reserve a "cheap" airline ticket to where to find gifts for your VIPs, we've uncovered some of the hottest websites to assist the meeting planning process. [
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6 Reasons Why Attendees Are Hitting The Road
Having the power to decide when to arrive at and depart from a meeting—and where you go while you’re there—is just one reason freedom and control top the list of why attendees are choosing to drive rather than fly. Click
here to read all six reasons why driving is the preferable travel method and check out
ConventionSouth’s January issue to find out more about 29 of the South’s top drive-in destinations.
Readers' Choice Awards
Whether it was a meeting destination, convention center, hotel or resort, you named your top choices for
ConventionSouth's annual Readers' Choice Awards. Click
here for a complete list of this year's winners.
Insider's Guides:
Keep up-to-date with the latest happenings from the South's meeting destinations with
ConventionSouth's monthly Insider's Guides. In this month's issue, find out the latest news and meeting site details on:
PLUS, click on each destination above to get more information and a detailed list of meeting sites & capacities within each area.

ConventionSouth On The Road
Throughout the year,
ConventionSouth writers and editors travel to destinations throughout the Southeast and report on their unique meeting offerings. This month, read about our traveling journalist’s experiences at
Sandestin (Fla.) Golf and Beach Resort and in
Charleston, S.C.
Latest Meeting Industry News:
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Excellence. Answers. Insight. ConventionSouth’s January Issue
Read the January issue to find out more about:
—Top 8 Industry Initiatives In 2008
—Boosting Association Attendance
—Spas & Group Services
—Conducting Silent & Live Auctions
Check out ConventionSouth's Directory of Meeting Sites in the South in the August issue. Click here to subscribe! 
Planning Directory
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