The 2009 Private Meetings Summit, set for the Eden Roc Resort in Miami Beach April 19-22, 2009, is an appointment-based annual event uniting leading luxury hotels with the travel industry�s most prominent meeting and incentive planners to build relationships and book business. 

�In today�s market, partnerships are a means of delivering more value to customers. With the addition of Meetings & Conventions magazine, we�re able to increase the profile of our great event. This enables us to bring our luxury hotel partners more business from the industries they care about: pharmaceutical, medical, associations, Fortune 1000 companies and more,� says Lisa Theodore, Publisher of Meeting Traveler and the upscale travel guide Resorts & Great Hotels.  

�We are pleased to partner with Meeting Traveler on the Private Meetings Summit,� says Bernard Schraer, Group Publisher of Meetings & Conventions magazine. �By combining resources, we will give our supplier partners yet another opportunity for one-on-one business exchanges with high-volume meeting and incentive planners.�

Registration is now open for meeting planners at www.PrivateMeetingsSummit.com.

Space is limited. 

Meetings & Conventions is published by Northstar Travel Media LLC, the world�s leading provider of information, news and data for the travel and hospitality industry. It also is the industry leader in events and conferences, marketing services, custom communications, content licensing and database management. Travel buyers, planners and arrangers in nearly every country of the world use Northstar products and services.

Meeting Traveler is published by Bonnier Corporation, one of the largest consumer-publishing groups in America and the leading media company serving passionate, highly engaged audiences through more than 40 special-interest magazines and related multimedia projects and events.