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OCCIDENTAL GRAND ARUBA
Splendidly situated on Aruba's Palm Beach, surrounded by bountiful shade
palms and white sands. With 398 rooms and suites, 7 restaurants, 4 bars
and 1 pool, this newly renovated resort features uncommon luxury
amenities, fine dining, casino and an experienced staff to bring all of
your meeting plans to life. Click
here for more details.
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Welcome to Beyond Borders Extra!
Beyond Borders Extra, an e-newsletter for meeting
planners taking meetings, incentive programs, and events outside the
U.S., is brought to you each month by The Meetings Group magazines:
Corporate Meetings and Incentives, Association Meetings, Medical
Meetings, Financial and Insurance Meetings, and Religious Conference
Manager. To subscribe or unsubscribe at any time, visit meetingsnet.com.
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ROYAL HIDEAWAY PLAYACAR
For the most discriminating events that combine the best in meeting
facilities with opulent personalized service. A AAA 5 Diamond resort,
nestled along the Riviera Maya, boasting over 2 staff members per room
to ensure infinite indulgence. Our staff is perpetually attentive to
your meeting needs with unrivaled service. Click
here for more details.
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International Intelligence
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Conventions Saved--Pretty Much--From Tax Rebate
Rollback
While the government of Canada has confirmed its
intention to eliminate the 6 percent Goods and Services Tax/Harmonized
Sales Tax Visitor Rebate Program, it has also announced the introduction
of the Foreign Convention and Tour Incentive Program, which allows
rebates in many cases to organizers, exhibitors, and attendees of
foreign conventions there (defined as an event at which 75 percent or
more of the attendees are expected to be nonresidents).
Under the proposed law--yet to be passed by Canada's
Parliament--sponsors and organizers of foreign conventions will be
eligible for a rebate of the GST paid on the convention facility (a
hotel, for example) or related convention supplies rented or purchased
from a supplier. However, the amount of the rebate available for food
and beverage or items purchased under a contract for catering is limited
to 50 percent of the GST paid by the sponsor.
For more details, visit the Canada
Revenue Agency Web site.
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OCCIDENTAL GRAND XCARET
Exuding the amazing Mayan culture, this 769 rooms and suites resorts
provides a convention center and state of the art facilities to host any
event. With 11 restaurants, 9 bars and 5 pools, it's 50 minutes from
Cancun's International airport and next to the world renown
eco-archeological Xcaret Park (one FREE pass included per guest). Click
here for more details.
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Rules and Regs
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Border-Crossing? Heads Up!
Don't leave home without it. No, not your American
Express Card. It's your passport, which now must be shown for U.S.
citizens to enter (and get back from) Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean
by air, under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative.
Meeting Professionals International is getting ready to meet in
Montreal July 28 to 31, and it will be the first major meeting industry
association conference outside the U.S. under the WHTI requirements.
While you'd think most MPI members would be savvy enough to know about
the new requirement, it's still not hard to imagine one or two being
turned away at the airport and missing the meeting, or at least arriving
very late.
Click here
for some tips to avoid that unfortunate scenario.
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OCCIDENTAL GRAND PAPAGAYO
Located in the unspoiled natural scenery of Costa Rica's ecologically
diverse Northern Pacific coastline, a breathtaking backdrop to the
striking vistas of the Bay of Papagayo. With 169 rooms and suites, 4
restaurants, 2 bars and 1 pool, this resort offers top meeting
facilities in the heart of paradise. Click
here for more details.
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Best of Beyond Borders
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Contracting and Negotiating Tips
Did you know that in Europe, most hotels require full
payment before the date of the meeting? Also, hotels commonly offer a
"Daily Delegate Package" for small meetings that combines meeting space
with hotel accommodations and food and beverage--but be aware that what
is included in the package varies from place to place.
That's just one of the many tips you'll find in Negotiating
and Contracting Tips, an article from the 2007 edition of Beyond
Borders, a special supplement about planning meetings outside the
U.S., which is mailed with the June and July issues of The Meetings Group
magazines.
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Across Cultures
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Money for Somethin'
Does it really pay to pay? That is, pay attendees' way
to a trade show?
Yes, it can, if the exhibition is large enough and involves a long
trip for participants. Total attendance at the fifth IMEX exhibition for
incentive and meetings buyers, held in Frankfurt, Germany, in late April
was 8,000, of which 3,500 were hosted buyers, posting records for all
three days of the show. IMEX chairman Ray Bloom attributed that in large
part to a strategic decision to expand the show's long-haul hosted-buyer
program, with a particular emphasis on the U.S. meeting planner. He
added that IMEX had also increased the number of intermediaries it had
worked with globally for 2007.
Bloom announced that the focus on delivering more long-haul hosted
buyers would continue well into the future. He also explained that the
strategic decision to hold the Meeting Professionals International
European Professional Education Conference in London the weekend before
IMEX 2008 (April 22-24) next year would again boost U.S. buyer
representation in Frankfurt. "We will be working closely with MPI and
the PEC-E organizing committee in London to attract a good
representation of U.S. planners to London and Frankfurt to take
advantage of both events," added Bloom.
For news on who received IMEX's Green Meetings Awards, visit meetingsnet.com.
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