A Letter from KCMPI's President Elect

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Dear Friends:

At the Meeting Professionals International Meet Different conference in Atlanta, Ga., I was witness to several excellent sessions on the current state of the industry, the recent call for sanctions by the U.S. government on TARP recipients' ability to host meetings and the effect of the recent surge of event cancellations. I urge each of you to go to www.MPIweb.org and view the archived re-cast of the One+ real time General Session and the various press releases put out by MPI CEO Bruce MacMillan and the travel industry joint advocacy group. These are extremely important times, please educate yourself on the impacts that these changes will have on our industry. Talk to your peers, supervisors and others in the industry to spread the word and educate.

Soon your local chapters of MPI will be working to send out letters to our legislators, please make sure you participate in this, the more we speak with one loud voice, the greater the impact!

Below is a link to an article in the Event Solutions magazine about a grass roots effort to also get the word out to others in the industry.

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Take care and best of luck in these uncertain times!

Michelle Lizak, CMP

(Michelle is a Marketing and Corporate Events Manager for US Central and is KCMPI's 2009-2010 President. She can be reached at michelle.a.lizak@gmail.com).