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Outdoor Winter Fun in Milwaukee: Olympic Edition
As the XXV Olympic Winter Games approach, we find ourselves thinking about Bill Murray. No, not about his cult classic “Groundhog Day,” but rather an idea he…
AVCA First Serve Announces Teams
The top women’s college volleyball teams in the country are coming to Milwaukee this summer. Taking place August 21-23, the American Volleyball Coaches…
Business of Travel Series: The Strategy That Turned Milwaukee into a Meetings Destination to Watch
Most cities talk about being one of a kind. They splash the words across banners at tradeshows, stitch them into glossy brochures, and beam them into airport concourses. You…
Business of Travel Series: Why This Great Lakes City Owns the Summer
By the time August 2024 rolled around, it was impossible to ignore: Milwaukee’s event calendar had gone supernova. On a two-mile stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline, four…
Business of Travel Series: Meet the City Leading the Next Era of Bleisure Travel
Business trips used to be simple—fly in, sit in a conference room under fluorescent lights, maybe hit a hotel bar and then catch the first flight out. These days, that…
Business of Travel Series: The Business Traveler's Secret Weapon? Milwaukee
By 8 a.m., Milwaukee’s downtown is already moving at a brisk clip. Rolling suitcases hum across crosswalks, coffee shops buzz with laptop chatter, and lanyards sway on…
Business of Travel Series: Meet Milwaukee's Master Builder
The annual conference of wargamers had grown so much they no longer fit in their longtime suburban Chicago convention center. They needed a new home for the 2025 gathering of…
Business of Travel Series: This City's Electric Energy Surprises— and Delivers for Visitors
This story originally ran as part of the American City Business Journal’s Business of Travel Series, sponsored by Visit Milwaukee. Milwaukee has a way of defying scale…
Business of Travel Series: The CEO Who Made Milwaukee Impossible to Ignore
This story originally ran as part of the American City Business Journal’s Business of Travel Series, sponsored by Visit Milwaukee. It started on a plane in September…
Business of Travel Series: Why the Next Great American Business Story Might Start in Milwaukee
This story originally ran as part of the American City Business Journal's Business of Travel Series, sponsored by Visit Milwaukee. On any given weekday morning, downtown…