ARDA

Everyone I run into at ARDA is twittering, blogging, or bitching.  Well not everyone is bitching!  I feel like a player in the movie Hustle and Flow.  It’s hard out here for a …(YOUR PROFESSION HERE).  Surprisingly (or not so) attendees are looking at ways to either take advantage of or better themselves because of what is being referred to as “the issue at hand.”  The Communications Committee sat in stunned silence as the same old message points were debated.  And the web site questioned.  www.vacationbetter.org couldn’t have fewer visitors if they tried.  Where are they on plain old organic searches?  The Meetings Committee reports that almost 2600 have registered at the annual American Resort Development Association annual convention.  www.arda.org  Doing better than expected.  If you could get in to the Think Tank session you were fortunate.  50 people turned away at the door.  Let’s see if they solved the “issue at hand.”  I wasn’t there…solving GBG & Associates own “issue at hand.”  If you visit Booth #1018 you’ll see the wave of the future with Blue Media   and at #509 Customer Count ® surveys Resort Trades readers’ experience in real time!