How Do Commissions and Discounts Impact Your Bottom Line? How much is your third-party meeting planner costing you? And how would you know? The independent conference and meeting planning industry offers a smorgasbord of pricing options – “no cost” site selection, hourly rates, fixed fees and percentage fees based on the total bill. Plus there are hotel commissions, negotiated discounts…
A national conference on human trafficking is bringing together activists, law enforcement and business leaders in St. Louis this week. Ignite: Sparking Action Against Sex Trafficking began Sunday night and continues through Tuesday. Featured speakers include Republican Congresswoman Ann Wagner of St. Louis County and Rep. Ted Poe of Texas. Both are sponsors of proposed federal legislation to enhance services…
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI – Influential legislators U.S. Congresswoman Ann Wagner and U.S. Congressman Ted Poe will speak at “IGNITE: Sparking Action Against Sex Trafficking” from March 2 – 4 at the St. Louis Union Station DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel. IGNITE, sponsored by the new social action organization Exchange Initiative, is the first national conference to address the sex trafficking issue…
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI – It’s happening every day across the United States and around the world, at fine hotels as well as seedy motels. Millions of children are being exploited in the global child sex trade. At least 300,000 American children and 1.2 million children worldwide are prostituted each year according to UNICEF, and the average age when they first…
With the world’s sporting spotlight set to shine brightly on New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on February 2, the 82,500-seat gladiatorial cauldron will slowly fill with fans drawn from coast to coast for Super Bowl XLVIII. Shaping up to be the greatest NFL spectacle yet, some well-drilled traffic management will need to be deployed to ensure the armies of travelling Denver…
ECPAT-USA is pleased to announce that Caribe Royale Orlando signed the Tourism Child Protection Code of Conduct at their hotel on January 23, 2014. The Code is a set of six voluntary business principles that travel and tourism companies can adopt to prevent child trafficking on their property. The commercial sexual exploitation of children is a crime that affects individuals…
It is considered to be one of the fasted growing criminal industries across the planet: human Trafficking. A Missouri group called Ignite: Sparking Action Against Sex Trafficking is hosting what it says is the first national, comprehensive conference on sex trafficking. It is estimated that there are least 300,000 children nationwide, and more than one million worldwide, who are at…
Congresswoman Wagner commended Nix Conference & Meeting Management and their work on the “IGNITE: Sparking Action Against Sex Trafficking” conference when she testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee regarding efforts to combat sex trafficking. YouTube ©January 2014
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month in the United States and one Missouri group is joining in to help put a stop to this crime. Exchange Initiative based out of St. Louis is holding the Ignite Conference on March 2-4.The conference will bring together professionals from law enforcement, medical, education, and community groups to help better understand and coordinate action…
Molly Hackett of the Exchange Initiative joined us to talk about human trafficking in the US. play Total Information AM Doug McElvein 00:01 KMOX-AM ©January 2014
