BLACK MEETINGS & TOURISM
The Authority on African-American Conventions & Leisure Travel
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March/April 2011
March 12 Black Economic Council Youth Empowerment Summit, Oak- land Marriott City Center, Oakland, CA. www.BlackEconomic-Council.- org
March 14-17 27th Annual Cruise Shipping Miami, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, FL. For conference registration, visit www.cruiseshippingmiami.com/con- ference. For exhibitor information visit www.cruiseshippingmiami.com/- exhibitors.
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March 19, 23, 24 17th Annual Black Women’s Conference: Activism in the 21st Century, sponsored by The University of Kentucky African American Studies and Research Program, Lexington, KY, www.uky.edu/AS/-AASRP/black_womens_conference
March 20-23 Re:think 2011: The 57th Annual Convention + Expo, spon- sored by the Advertising Research Foundation, New York, NY. www.- thearf.org
March 21-25 SES New York - The Rise of Hispanic & Latin American Audiences, New York, NY. www.searchenginestrategies.com/newyork/regis- tration-details.html
March 22-26 Expocomer Panama Import & Export Show, Panama. (599) 554-0796
March 23-25 Multicultural Marketing Conference, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Canada. www.marketingmag.ca/microsite/multicultural-market- ing-conference-2011
March 23-25 2011 Custom Content Conference, The Mills House & Hibernian Hall, Charleston, SC. For more information, call (212) 989-4631 or email info@customcontentcouncil.com
March 27-29 Pharmaceutical Meeting Management Forum, Philadelphia, PA. (800) 817-8601
March 28-29 R.Evolución Latina Choreographers Festival, New York, NY. http://revolucionlatina.org/choreographers-festival.html
March 28-30 The Gulf Incentive, Business & Travel Meetings Exhibition, Abu Dhabi, UAE. www.gibtm.com
April 3-5 2011 Travel South Showcase, Georgia World Congress Center, Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, GA. Liz.bittner@travelsouthusa.com
April 3-6 12th Annual Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development (STC-12), The Fairmont Southampton, Bermuda. (212) 635- 9530or www.CaribbeanSTC.com
April 4-6 Linkage Leading Diversity Summit, Atlanta, GA. http://mylink- age.com/events/summit-on-leading-diversity
April 5 7th Annual Multicultural Marketing Conference, St. Paul, MN. www.aguilarproductions.com/multicultural/2011_multiconf.htm
April 6-8 2011 Texas Diversity and Leadership Conference,” Dallas, TX. www.texasdiversityconference.com/index.htm
April 6-8 Hispanicize 2011, the 2nd Annual Hispanic PR & Social Media Conference, Los Angeles, CA. www.hispanicprconference.com
April 6-12 The 18th New York African Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY. www.africanfilmny.org
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