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September 14 National Policy
Alliance Business Meeting and
Luncheon honoring Webster Guillory,
Washington Plaza Hotel, Washington,
DC. For more information contact
Linda Haithcox Taylor, NPA Executive
Director, at (202) 667-3280 or
www.npalinks.org
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September 14 Black Meetings &
Tourism kicks off its mentoring pro-
gram with a Youth Forum Roundtable
Discussion, Washington Plaza Hotel,
Washington, DC. For more informa-
tion contact Katrina Ruff at (303) 856-
7018 or katrina.ruff@forumsmeet
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ings.com.
September 14-15 Association for
the Promotion of Travel to Africa
(APTA) National Forum, Oxford
Hotel, Denver, CO. www.apta.bix
September 20 2018 Horowitz
Cultural Insights Virtual Forum, New
Rochelle, NY. http://www.culturalin-
sightsforum.com
September 21-23 12th Annual
ADCOLOR Conference and Awards,
JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE,
Los Angeles, CA To register visit
www.adcolor.org
September 25-29 National Black
MBA Association's (NBMBAS) 40th
Annual Conference and Exposition,
Cobo Center, Detroit, MI. www.nbm-
baa.org/conference/
September 26-29 Greeting Card
Association's 77th Annual Convention,
Cleveland, OH. https://www.greeting-
card.org/events/2018-gca-annual-con-
vention/
October 1-5 State of Tourism
Industry Conference (SOTIC), Atlantis,
Paradise Island, The Bahamas.
http://sotic.onecaribbean.org/register/
October 16-17 32nd Annual
NAMIC Conference, New York, NY.
http://namic.com/event_item/con-
ference/
October 16-18 IMEX America,
Las Vegas, NV. www.imexamerica.com
October 20 Regional Black
Contractors Association Year End
Awards Gala, Hilton Hotel – Arlington,
Arlington, TX. (214) 565-8946 or
info@blackcontractors.org
November 4-6 2018 ANA
Multicultural Marketing & Diversity
Conference presented by Pandora,
Miami Beach, FL http://www.ana.net-
/conference/show/id/MCC-NOV18
November 15-16 Men of Color in
Communications Business Summit,
Bloomberg Headquarters, New York,
NY. For more information visit www.-
mccsummit.com.
November 19-20 Certification in
Advanced Hotel and Tourism Analytics
(CAHTA), PATA Engagement Hub,
Bangkok, Thailand. https://www.-
pata.org
November 28-Decemeber 1
NCBMP 2018 Annual Conference,
Hyatt Regency New Orleans, New
Orleans, LA. info@ncbmp.org
or (571)
366-1779
December 2-4 19th LGBTQ
Tourism Forum, Fort Lauderdale, FL
For more information contact tom@c-
ommunitymarketinginc.com.
December 6 2018 Horowitz
Cultural Insights Virtual Forum, New
Rochelle, NY. http://www.culturalin-
sightsforum.com
January 29-31 2019 Caribbean
Travel Marketplace, Montego Bay
Convention Centre, Montego Bay,
Jamaica. For further information, visit
www.caribbeanhotelandtourism.com
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