Planners reported growth in terms of their budgets and attendees in 2006, but there were plenty of issues they had to contend with. Chief among them is coping with being a buyer in what is clearly a seller's market. In fact, dealing with the rising costs of air travel and lodging seemed to leave planners witih little time to focus on more strategic concerns, like how to keep an increasingly diverse group of time-starved attendees coming back to their meetings.

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