The Tao of Dow

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Roger Dow, president and ceo of the Travel Industry Association, explains how the issues facing this travel industry intersect with meetings

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New Registered Traveler security lanes are screening travelers at the metropolitan Washington, D. C., airports — Reagan and Dulles — as well as in Oakland, Calif.

The Professional Convention Management Association is offering a new member service: an Executive Book Summary, an eight-page report on the hottest business books, delivered monthly. For more, visit www.pcma.org.

Omni Hotels has launched a mobile-device-friendly Web site. The chain claims to be the first with mobile check-in capability, allowing guests to have their room keys waiting for them when they arrive.

The hotel market will cool in 2008, but remain a seller's market, according to PKF Hospitality Research, Atlanta. PKF projects that occupancy levels will decline slightly, while average daily room rates will increase 5.3 percent.

Torum, a city in north central Poland, and the Republic of Armenia are the emerging incentive destinations that have been named IMEX Wild Card winners, receiving free exhibit space at the April event at Messe Frankfurt in Germany.

British Airways plans to launch OpenSkies, a subsidiary airline flying between the U.S. and the European Union, in June. The airline is in response to the Open Skies agreement, which goes into effect March 31, allowing airlines from either side of the Atlantic to fly anywhere in the EU and the U.S.

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