The most successful sales professionals use every available tool to garner lead prospects and research competitors. The enhanced MINT+ is one resource for meetings and event salespeople at destination marketing organizations (DMOs). Our recent webinar, “10 Impressive Ways Your Sales Peers Maximize…
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Destinations International was founded in 1915 in St. Louis by sales representatives of 28 different U.S. destinations. Then called the Association of Convention Secretaries, the organization had many purposes, one being to share information between communities about meetings and conventions that…
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Christine "Shimo" Shimasaki shares her top three takeaways from the 2021 Destinations International Annual Convention in Baltimore. Shimasaki is one of the most influential people in the meetings and events industry — so tune in to hear what she has to say about the importance of data, alignment…
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Where We Have Been The MINT+ transformation has launched! Ease of reporting, more meetings data, and reliable universal market segmentation have been implemented, while a suggestive recommendation feature is on the way later this year. Destinations International shepherded the industry’s…
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A Q&A with Greg Morris The global pandemic brought in-person conferences and meetings to a standstill in 2020. A recent report by the U.S. Travel Association suggests the decline in direct spending generated by the meetings, conventions and trade show industry for 2020 was in the range of $97…
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We are excited to announce a major enhancement to Meetings Information Network (MINT+) effective June 2021. MINT+, a joint venture between Destinations International and Simpleview, is the industry's largest shared repository of information on organizations and their meetings and events. MINT+ is…
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This year has dealt a huge challenge to the meetings and events industry. For us, this means continuing to adapt and grow our world-class tools to use data more effectively and refine our systems for greater efficiency to help our customers during the recovery and beyond. One perfect example of this…
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An impact analysis drawing on aggregate CRM data from a representative sample of 200+ US DMOs Last week, Bill Simpson, our Chief Technology Officer, joined me in a webinar presented by Destinations International, sharing our industry's first solid data offering a high-level view of how the COVID-19…
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Originally published by Destinations International WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 7, 2020) – Destinations International today announced a joint venture with Simpleview for the next generation of MINT+, a new visionary project to build a powerful industry solution that will serve as the world’s largest…
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