Nov 18, 2009 - Penney and I are departing this morning for Fort Lauderdale where she will be attending the FEST Fest.
1:50pm – we just arrived at the Hilton Marina Hotel, it has recently been renovated. We had a lovely lunch while watching the beautiful yachts coming and going.
3:30pm Penney, Carol and Glenn went to their first seminar, 101 ways to sell more cruises by Dave Stockert. I decided to sit on the balcony of our room and enjoy the marina view while they were gone.
Penney said that the seminar was really good, they discussed marketing ideas and where to find group leaders. This evening, Kevin arrived (he had to stay in Nashville today and work) we attended a welcome reception and called it an early evening.
Nov 19, 2009 – Up and out early for breakfast with Josh, from the Fort Lauderdale CVB.
Next was General Sessions, the President of NEST welcomed us and then Scott Koepf, President of NACTA spoke on The State of the Travel Industry. He was great… he spoke with passion, humor and even sang to us :)
Then onto 3 breakouts, where we heard about all the booking and marketing tools that NEST has to offer.
We had a fabulous lunch at China Grill…. wow, were we stuffed. So I decided I would go back to the room for a quick nap while Kevin & Penney went to the trade show. I did join them for the last seminar with Nolan Burris. He was talking on social media, Facebook, MYSpace, and Twitter.
This evening the delegates were split into groups of 10 and each supplier hosted a meal. Our supplier was Alycia with Princess Cruises. She was very generous and treated us to dinner at the Fishery. We had a wonderful dinner, good conversation and lots of fun.
Well NEST Fest has come to an end… tomorrow we are going on to the next conference, NACTA.
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