RCMA Bucks Lowered Attendance Trend

While many meeting industry associations found dwindling attendance at their early 2002 conferences, the Religious Conference Management Association’s 30th Anniversary Conference and Exposition proved to be a winner by breaking its all-time attendance record. The 1,378 attendees who came to the conference in Tampa Jan. 29-Feb. 1 represented a 7 percent increase over the 2001 RCMA conference in Milwaukee—which makes it the best-attended conference in RCMA’s history. The association’s