Past Events

As the premier event for destination marketing and management professionals, DMAI’s 2016 Annual Convention promises to inspire, educate and inform. This year’s convention will be nothing short of an engaging, energetic and value-driven event featuring educational tracks focused on leadership, marketing, sports, convention sales, and more moderated by dynamic thought leaders from inside and outside the industry. DMAI's Annual Convention provides:   An exclusive opportunity to connect peers and thought leaders from inside and outside the industry. An integrated approach to learning regardless…

The SYTA Annual Conference is much more than a trade show. It’s a community of passionate, educated, and engaged members, committed to promoting, selling, and providing travel experiences for students while advancing the student and youth travel industry. We welcome all representatives in the student and youth market including tour operators (inbound and outbound), group travel planners, travel agents, international senders, and receptive operators. Professionals from destination marketing organizations, convention & visitors bureaus, international tourism boards, hotels, attractions, restaurants, insurance,…

In October sailors from around the globe gather on miles of docks in beautiful downtown historic Annapolis for the United States Sailboat Show. This is an internationally acclaimed sailboat show, recognized as the largest, most prestigious, and oldest in-water sailboat show in the world.

Great Investment in Your Business’ Success We already know that the OMCA Marketplace has great events, amazing food, and an intimate “family” feeling. And while all that’s great, we also know that what really matters is the business you do there, the return that you can generate on your investment in time and money. So OMCA recently asked the University of Guelph’s Business School Tourism and Hospitality Department to survey Marketplace participants to measure the economic value of attending, to…