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One result of that research was an award winning paper, co-authored by Nelson and CREF Academic Director Jan deRoos. This paper won the <em>International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management<\/em>&#8216;s Best Paper Award at ICES 2013, which met this year in Bangkok, Thailand. The paper is \u201cAn analysis of data regarding public private partnership to encourage hotel development in the United States.\u201d ICES is the International Convention and Expo Summit, which is the major Asian conference for purveyors serving the Asia\u2019s MICE travel segment (meetings, incentives, conferences, exhibitions).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based at the University of Delaware, Robert Nelson \u201983 has been a visiting scholar at the CREF during the Spring 2013 semester. 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