Besides showing off its new nonstop flights to Europe at its  international airport, the Hartford Convention & Visitors Bureau will show off some of its own literary history. When the Greater Hartford Convention & Visitors Bureau welcomed the Financial & Insurance Conference Planners to Hartford for the organization’s “Northeast Chapter Meetings.” CVB personnel took attendees on a tour of the Mark Twain House & Museum (pictured in background). The tour was followed by an evening reception at Joe Black’s Restaurant & Bar. NICP, one of the most highly respected organizations in the meeting planning profession, is a network of over 500 professionals who plan business and incentive meetings specific to the insurance and financial services industry. (left-to-right): Michael Van Parys, Vice  President of Sales for the Greater Hartford Convention & Visitors Bureau; Karen Staples, National Sales Manager of the Greater Hartford Convention & Visitors Bureau (she runs its Washington, D.C. Sales Office); Heather Huebner, Manager of Corporate Events for Hartford Steam Boiler, Inspection & Insurance Company as well as a member of the Host Planning Committee for the NICP  event and Randy Rovelto, Director of Corporate Accounts at the Hartford Marriott Downtown, the host hotel for the meeting.