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Preparing for Worst-Case Scenarios Planners Face a Heightened Duty of Care Amid Growing Safety & Security Risks Page 44 Incentives at Sea All-Inclusive = A COASTAL COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION PUBLICATION MAY/JUNE 2017 VOL. 24 NO. 3 $10.00 Preparing for Worst-Case Scenarios Planners Face a Heightened Duty of Care Amid Growing Safety & Security Risks Page 44 Incentives at Sea All-Inclusive = Excellent Value Brenda Rivers, JD, President and CEO of Andavo Page 18 Meetings, Incentives and Consulting, and certified by the Institute of Crisis Management Communications, has firsthand experience with major meeting disruptors. Courtesy Andavo Speakers & Entertainment Page 26 Golf & Spa Resorts Page 32 Keeping Up With Tech Page 38 FIND A MEETINGS DESTINATION THAT DAZZLES Just minutes from a world-class airport and some of the world’s top hotels, restaurants and beaches, Miami offers a stunning array of meeting options, including the new Miami Beach Convention Center, coming in 2018. 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INSURANCE & FINANCIAL MEETINGS MANAGEMENT MAY/JUNE 2017 3 Publisher’s Message A COASTAL COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION PUBLICATION PUBLISHER/EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Harvey Grotsky [email protected] CREATIVE DIRECTOR When the Unthinkable Happens Mitch D. Miller The nation was rocked a year ago in June by the deadliest mass shooting in [email protected] America’s history at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. An active shooter incident like MANAGING EDITOR Susan S. Gregg this is a worst-case crisis management scenario and a meeting planner’s worst [email protected] nightmare. Less horrific but still frightening are other “disruptors” such as severe CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Sophia Bennett weather events, as in hurricanes. Imagine being impacted by both of the above Ron Bernthal for the same meeting. John Buchanan Sara Churchville It happened to Brenda Rivers, JD, president Cynthia Dial and CEO of Andavo Meetings, Incentives and Maura Keller Christine Loomis Consulting (who graces our cover) in planning a Derek Reveron five-day annual summit in Orlando, set to take Mark Rowh Patrick Simms place in October 2016. With news of the city in a David Swanson panic over the shootings in June, registered at- PRESIDENT & CEO tendees for the October event were in a panic, Harvey Grotsky too. Rivers, who is certified by the Institute of VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS David Middlebrook Crisis Management Communications, and her [email protected] team employed their skills and expertise to avert ADVERTISING SALES OFFICES potential mass cancellations. As if that weren’t 2700 N. 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