This course is to study the meeting business, e.g. conventions. Convention is the cover term of meeting business and gets the most attention from the tourism industry in the 21 century. The purpose of this course is to overview the meeting business through reading the relevant articles, and to implement the knowledge of the meeting business into practice through the mock-up convention. The course is generally divided into two parts-theory and practice. The first half of this course is given to study the meeting business, and the second half to the implementation of the meeting business.