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Economy helping local businesses meet goals: planners adding more sizzle to their meetings.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 31-OCT-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
"Meet me in San Diego" probably doesn't have the same ring to it as "Meet me in St. Louis, Louis."

But local meeting planners and destination managers are ringing up more sales this year than last, as they distance themselves from the tight-fisted corporate budget years that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

"Actually, meetings and conventions started to soften before 9/11," said Patti Roscoe, the chairwoman of San Diego-based PRA Destination Management Inc., which has 17 locations nationwide. "They started coming back last year. This year looks to be a good year for us, and next year looks strong as well.

PRA Destination Management was founded in 1981. Roscoe owns the two offices that are in San Diego. Together, they have 40 full-time employees and 100 people who are on call to work part time. The other...

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