Save Money on Your Hotel Master Bill
Use your American Express® Card to pay for your events, and you'll rediscover the other kind of surprise - the pleasant kind. There are extensive savings opportunities available at www.americanexpress.com/meetingoffers for American Express Corporate Meeting Card members.

At Loews Hotels, save 4% off the master bill for rooms when you pay with your Corporate Meeting Card. At InterContinental Hotels you can earn double points, or earn 25,000 Marriott Rewards® bonus points for eligible meetings.

Come to Canada. Ask for Steve
Whether it's a meeting, convention, or incentive travel program, Steve's got that insider information you'll need to make it an extra-ordinary event. Your friends at the CTC, including our go-to guy Steve, can assist you every step of the way including Passports & Visas, Bringing Goods In, Money & Tax Benefits, Getting to Canada plus what's new in Canada and its destinations. Come to Canada. Ask for Steve.
www.meetings.canada.travel

Mexico Showcase and Travel Expo
The Mexico Tourism Board, Cancun Convention and Visitors Bureau and Global Incentive Management are inviting qualified Incentive and Meeting Planners to their 7th Mexico Showcase and Travel Expo April 24 - 28, 2008. Local Hotels, DMC's and Support service providers are anxious to showcase their properties and services to promote Mexico as the perfect Group Travel Destination. For more information visit, www.mexicoshowcase.com

FedEx Kinko's made news in January when it announced its strategic alliance with PCMA, and is now pleased to announce that since that time the company has completed a significant agreement with the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), one of the largest convention centers in America. The company has opened three new FedEx Kinko's Office and Print Centers in the LVCC.

By developing partnerships in premier hotels and convention centers around the country, FedEx Kinko's goes a step further in providing on-site meeting and convention services. Check out their new meeting Web site to search for locations and services ready to meet your meeting needs.

Here's a $175,000 Incentive to Book Hawai'i Now! For their 10th anniversary, the Hawai'i Convention Center would like to write you a $175,000 Thank You note. Get $175,000 in promotional and destination support programs when you book your meeting of 2,500 delegates or more for 2011, 2014 or 2016. But act quickly, no anniversary lasts forever.  Click Here  for further details or E-mail the Hawai'i Convention Center at 10thpromo@hccsmg.com.

Mexico Showcase and Travel Expo
The Mexico Tourism Board, Cancun Convention and Visitors Bureau and Global Incentive Management are inviting qualified Incentive and Meeting Planners to their 7th Mexico Showcase and Travel Expo April 24 - 28, 2008. Local Hotels, DMC's and Support service providers are anxious to showcase their properties and services to promote Mexico as the perfect Group Travel Destination. For more information visit, www.mexicoshowcase.com

Bid Now! Win Big!
The PCMA Convention Center Auction is offering you the chance to host your convention in yet another top destination: Orlando, Florida! All proceeds are invested back into education and research to benefit you, our members! Curious?

Check out the offer and contact PCMA at 312.423.7244 or conventioncenterauction@pcma.org to see if your dates are available!

The Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau has extended its meeting planners incentive program to generate group business for August and September 2008-2010. Meeting planners who book groups at the Broward County Convention Center for those months and contract a minimum of 600 peak-night hotel rooms will receive free rental of all floor space throughout the Convention Center, as well as have attrition fees waived at contracted hotels. Click here for more information.

Introducing Priority Club Meeting Rewards, a loyalty program that rewards you for qualified meetings you hold at any of our more than 2,800 hotels in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. You'll receive 3 Priority Club points for every US$1 you spend on qualified meetings.

If you already earn rewards for personal stays as a Priority Club Rewards member, be sure to update your membership level to "Meeting Rewards." Click here to enroll or update your membership level now, or call 1-800-MEETING.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts continues to partner with PCMA to bring members free and discounted meeting and business tools -- Executive Book Summaries and Beyond the Books, Audio Conference Series by SOUNDVIEW.
PCMA members now have complimentary access to over 300 Executive Book Summaries and 1,000 Speed Reviews, plus a 50% discount off any Beyond the Books Audio Conferences of several of Soundview featured authors. Click Here for more details.  

MeetingMetrics^SM, a comprehensive meeting performance measurement service that offers a new way for meetings professionals to show value to their organizations, is still available at an exclusive discounted price for PCMA members only. Click here for more information or to qualify for a FREE MeetingMetrics^SM license.

For your business and meeting travel, choose an airline that helps to offset carbon emissions associated with air travel. As of June 1, 2007, Delta Airlines became the first US airline to offer customers this opportunity, in partnership with The Conservation Fund.

Visit www.delta.com/skybonus to enroll in Delta's SkyBonus online rewards program. Benefits, when confirming reservations on www.delta.com include: no service fees, no airport lines when you check-in online, and the ability to reissue or make changes from the convenience of your computer.

The Map Network (TMN), a division of NAVTEQ Corp. (NYSE: NVT) the leading provider of digital map data, has partnered with PCMA to offer you innovative online and print mapping solutions to help you promote your facilities and services in a more targeted, customized way. TMN produces dynamic maps to enhance visitor/attendee navigation of your facility/property as well as provide local, customized information on your location.

The Map Network is delighted to extend you a 10% discount off standard pricing for The Map Network's services. If you would like more information, please contact Kari Jacobson-Smith, Senior National Sales and Logistics Manager at 202.898.1008 x 119 or kari.jacobson-smith@navteq.com.

In addition to a $1,000 rebate for your participation in the PCMA Space Verification Program, MeetingMatrix International will extend to all PCMA 2008 Annual Meeting attendees an additional 15% discount on your Certified Room Diagrams. This offer expires June, 2008.

For more information contact Daris Frencha with PCMA at 312-423-7214 or visit www.pcma.org