Meetings mean relationships, business deals, collaboration and stronger communities. A coalition of industry leaders have joined together to push back against the negative meetings commentary. The Meetings Mean Business campaign is a national movement to change the conversation around business travel and explain to customers, associations and businesses the true value of meetings and events. This article originally appeared in @MPIGNY, the magazine of the Greater New York Chapter of MPI. Naylor and Association Adviser are not officially affiliated with Meetings Means Business campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":3068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,31],"tags":[499,202,500,501,502],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-features","tag-greater-new-york-mpi","tag-meetings","tag-meetings-mean-business","tag-roger-dow","tag-u-s-travel-association"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n