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Travel and Experience by Train

Smart Meetings

Hop on the train for travel and team-building For meeting professionals and their clients, traveling can be crucial to the job. Travelers may want to consider a more affordable and scenic experience—a good old fashioned train ride. Travelers may want to consider a more affordable and scenic experience—a good old fashioned train ride.

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Event Profs Slated for Upgrades with New Certifications, Training Programs

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Training programs are upping the event planning standard. With so much young talent entering our industry, we wanted to create an easy and free way for our clients to train new team members and to provide continuing education for more experienced planners,” said GDP President and CEO Catherine Chaulet in a press release.

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New ESPA Event Servicing Certification Debuts

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Meeting professionals rely heavily on the event servicing teams behind the scenes to execute on the best-laid plans for effective meetings. This is codifying best practices through robust continuing education programs, which will result in better service to clients, unambiguous internal metrics and career growth,” he said. “In

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Train Check: Acela Service Between Moynihan Train Hall and Union Station

Business Traveler USA

As the pandemic cut ridership on the train system to a crawl last year, the state-supported national rail entity has been busy ramping up reasons to step aboard with hard-to-resist promotions, new service, new train service and new lounges. trains to some 500 destinations in 46 states. WHERE IS IT? to 9:30 p.m.,

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Sign of the Times? GE Sells its Famed Training Facility

MeetingsNet

A private group of investors has purchased Crotonville, General Electric’s management-training facility for nearly 70 years, for $22 million and will operate the suburban New York venue as a conference center—which means that business groups can meet in the same spaces that legendary GE CEO Jack Welch educated his management teams.

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Vegas-to-L.A. High-Speed Train Coming by 2028

MeetingsNet

Days after announcing that its high-speed electric rail service connecting Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach with Orlando will debut in September, Brightline has made public its next intercity project: Las Vegas and Los Angeles will be connected via fast electric rail in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

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Want to Improve Your Business Performance? Fix Your Corporate Training Issues.

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The bad news is the state of corporate training in the U.S. According to recent studies , six out of 10 employees say they’ve had no formal workplace training; they’ve had to learn the job on their own. In a nutshell, most workers say their employers do a poor job of corporate training. today is abysmal. First, the bad news.