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Ground operators were called ground handlers and they were mostly small enterpreneurships operating in a single destination.
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Coined by Phil Lee, founder of California Leisure Consultants, to describe the expanded role they played as local logistics experts.
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Several regional and national destination management companies emerged, due to the expanding of meeting, convention and incentive travel industry.
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Lots of DMC´s were forced to cut their meeting budgets, because hoteles, decorators, etc. were also offering this services.
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Only the strongest survived because of new developements, such as corporatizing of the destination management business.
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Biggest crisis.
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Clientes prefer to work with locally owned and opérate DMC’s.
We call DMC’s as global partners.