View of downtown Manhattan from atop Chelsea Market.
This week hundreds of travel bloggers, writers, editors, and PR people are descending on New York City for the 2010 Travel Blog Exchange conference. In addition to sponsored networking events, a host of informal gatherings are springing up in the days leading up to TBEX.
To ensure you can keep up with all the publicly announced TBEX meetups, I’m going to share them here, and make updates as information is given.
If you’re hosting a TBEX-related event and would like to see it listed here, please write me or tweet me @rtwdave.
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- Date: Wednesday, June 23
- Time: 6 – 8 pm
- Location: 71 Irving Place Coffee & Tea Bar (71 Irving Place, between 18th + 19th St)
- Event: This Week in Travel meetup (hosted by @Everywheretrip + @Chris2x)
- Who: Open to everyone.
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- Date: Thursday, June 24
- Time: 7 pm
- Location: Ace Hotel, 20 West 29th Street (between Broadway + 5th Ave)
- Event: #PREBEX meetup (instigated by @BrooklynNomad @TravelingAnna + @20stravel)
- Who: Open to everyone.
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- Date: Friday, June 25
- Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
- Location: Private
- Event: TBEX Speaker’s Dinner
- Who: TBEX speakers only.
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- Date: Friday, June 25
- Time: 8 – 10 pm
- Location: Omni Berkshire Place, 21 East 52nd Street (at Madison Ave)
- Event: TBEX ’10 Kickoff Party – Cocktails Around the World hosted by Weber Shandwick Travel & Lifestyle
- Who: Open to registered attendees who RSVP’d by email.
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- Date: Saturday, June 26
- Time: 9 am – 4 pm
- Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th St (between University Place + Greene St)
- Event: TBEX Day 1
- Who: Registered TBEX attendees only.
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- Date: Saturday, June 26
- Time: 4 – 6 pm
- Location: To be announced Saturday at TBEX.
- Event: TripAdvisor Happy Hour
- Who: Registered TBEX attendees only.
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- Date: Saturday, June 26
- Time: 7 – 10 pm
- Location: The Professor’s Loft, 219 2nd Ave, 2nd Floor (between 13th + 14th St)
- Event: The BootsnAll & Eurocheapo Afterparty
- Who: Open to registered TBEX attendees who RSVP’d online.
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- Date: Sunday, June 27
- Time: 8:30 am – 4:15 pm
- Location: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th St (between University Place + Greene St)
- Event: TBEX Day 2
- Who: Registered TBEX attendees only.
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- Date: Sunday, June 27
- Time: After final TBEX session (~4:15 pm)
- Location: Near the Cantor Film Center. Exact location to be announced via Twitter on Sunday (follow @DiamondPR).
- Event: Taco Truck courtesy of Diamond PR
- Who: Registered TBEX attendees only.
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- Date: Tuesday, June 29
- Time: 7 – 10 pm
- Location: The Hudson Beach Cafe, Riverside Drive and West 105th St
- Event: Indie Travel Podcast meetup (hosted by @Craig_Martin @LindaJMartin)
- Who: Open to everyone. See who’s going on Facebook.
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And to keep up with all the World Cup games going on throughout the week and weekend, check out this cool schedule (local South African time), or the easier-to-follow ESPN schedule (local NYC time).
Watching the USA v Slovenia World Cup match at the Village Pourhouse, NYC
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Categories: Meetups & Events, New York City
Post tags: networking, tbex, tweetup
4 Comments
You rock! Really needed exactly this for my planning.
BTW, I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure the Matador meet-up was canceled so everybody could enjoy the other Saturday night festivities.
Easier using this then Teresa's notebook!
Thanks Steph, I removed it.
So thankful for this! Perfect and should make it a lot easier to keep track, thanks Dave! :-)