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Mixing business and pleasure at Southern Gaming Summit: 'cream of the crop' of regional gaming conferences.

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BILOXI -- More than 5,000 casino professionals from North America will mingle on the Mississippi Gulf Coast May 5-6 at the 11th-annual Southern Gaming Summit, which in the last decade has grown from a primarily local event into the nation's second largest conference and gaming expo, the largest outside of Las Vegas.

Last year's sold-out summit broke all previous attendance records with more than 5,000 participants, with more than half traveling from outside of Mississippi, representing 42 states, several Canadian provinces, the United Kingdom, Australia, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas. Nearly 20,000 room nights were generated over the four-day period.

The 2003 conference featured 18 educational seminars, five comprising the "Diamond Decade Series," and an opening session entitled "The Mississippi Miracle: The Next 10 Years of Challenges and Opportunities."

"The main event that sets this conference apart from others will take place May 5, when the Taste of Gulf Coast Casinos Dinner is held," said Stephen Gibbs, spokesperson for Ascend Media. "It's absolutely the hottest ticket, and sells out every year."

At the dinner, each Gulf Coast Casino Association member property is allocated a 50-foot food station, where chefs present the casino's best menu items and test new dishes...

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