“Keep America Meeting” Campaign - March 2, 2009
Read about this in Meeting News – “Keep America Meeting (KAM)” is a grassroots campaign designed to promote meetings as an important business practice – especially in light of the recent press on large corporations mishandling their funds. The campaign’s centerpiece is an online petition that individuals and organizations may sign in support of the meetings industry. Petition signatures will be collected by KAM – a collaborative group of meetings, events and incentive travel industry participants and delivered to the US Travel Association and other industry associations, so they may use them in order to advocate on behalf of meetings, events and incentive travel during ongoing discussions about corporate responsibility with the Obama Administration and with Congress.
KAM has attracted a wide group of endorsers, including the Society of Incentive Travel Executives, the Society of Independent Show Organizers, the San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau, PGA National Resort & Spa and many others.


