Ken Lyons

Here’s a third party’s advice to hotels, DMCs, and other partners for streamlining the RFP process as we get back to meetings and incentive travel. By Joanie Phillips and Ken Lyons | Feb 11, 2021 Ask anyone in the industry and they’ll tell you: RFPs are a necessary evil. Whether you’re a third-party agency, a CVB, a DMC, or a hotel, it takes a lot of time and energy from a team of people to put together a quality proposal.

Looking just as fresh as when he started, Joe Louis, challenger for the heavyweight boxing title, is shown with trainer Jack Blackburn, at right, as he started for the showers after completing a strenuous outdoor drill at his training camp at Kenosha, Wisconsin May 23, 1937. Louis is preparing for his championship fight with James Braddock, and it was the Brown Bomber's first outdoor appearance. About 450 fans and a party of newspapermen witnessed the performance. Man at left is unidentified.

Malcolm X speaks at a news conference in the Hotel Theresa on 125th St. and Seventh Ave., in New York City, May 21, 1964. The black nationalist leader, who has just returned from Africa, says he wants to form a united Afro-American front to help bring the plight of the "Afro-American negroes" before the United Nations. After his pilgrimage to Mecca in April, he has changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.