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The Coast meeting and convention market improved some this year and Donna Tarasavage, director of sales for the Mississippi Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau, believes the outlook for 2005 is for activity to remain constant.

"We have a full calendar ahead," she said.

The Coast will again be hosting Bank Travel, which held a convention here in 2002 and liked the destination so much they decided to come back. Bank Travel groups are one of the more affluent segments in the group travel market, Tarasavage said. The convention of tour planners will come to the Coast in February of 2005.

"We have a lot of new products under development since they were here," she said. "That is part of their decision to return. The Southeast Tourism Society is also returning next year. It is a small group, but a very prestigious, influential-type organization. The whole reason behind inviting them to the area is to expose them to the market. They looked at Hancock County,...

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