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Museums & Attractions
  • The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) in New York and The Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas have partnered to create RMA in Dallas. Located in The Crow Collection of Asian Art’s Gallery III, RMA in Dallas will present a series of Himalayan exhibitions developed from the RMA’s permanent collection in New York. The RMA in Dallas inaugural exhibition, Female Buddhas: Women of Enlightenment in Himalayan Art, will run through August 29 and includes sculptures and colorful paintings of fully realized women of power, compassion and omniscience, including Tara, the most popular female Buddha in Tibet. The objects on display date from the 13th through the 19th centuries. For more information, including information on hosting private events at The Crow Collection of Asian Art, call 214.979.6430 or visit www.crowcollection.org.

Programs & Packages
  • Fort Worth, Texas’ Doral Tesoro Hotel & Golf Club is offering a complimentary All About Golf meeting break. According to the property, the hotel’s on-property golf instructor will be on hand to provide conferees with tips to improve their golf swing, suggestions to cure slices and shanks, ways to improve their stance and position, tips to improve distance and putting, and ways to improve their golf grip. In addition, a high-tech swing analyzer also will be used to evaluate each attendee’s swing. The property provides all of the clubs and teaching tools at the meeting space. Planners also can choose to enhance the break with a selection of golf-themed food and beverage items available for an additional charge. For information on Doral Tesoro’s All About Golf meeting break, contact the hotel’s sales department at 817.961.0800 or visit www.doraltesoro.com.

Kudos
  • Team members from Starwood Hotels and Resorts, the parent company of the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel and the W Hotels of New Orleans, spent Friday, Feb. 2 volunteering for Operation CPR: City Park Restoration, Starwood’s philanthropic initiative to bring Popp’s Fountain in New Orleans City Park back to its pre-Katrina glory. Nearly 1,000 associates participated in Operation CPR, focusing on the restoration of landscaping around the 70-year-old fountain, as well as the repair and painting of 2,700 linear feet of ornamental iron fence work. For more information about Starwood Hotels and Resorts, visit www.starwood.com.

  • Marriott International announced that during the last year it has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. by 70,000 tons, the equivalent of removing 10,000 cars from U.S. streets. Marketing itself as the first major hotel company to proactively join the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Leaders Program, the emissions reductions are the initial results of Marriott’s five-year goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 6 percent per guest room by 2010. Marriott’s efforts to lesson its impact on the environment led to its recognition as an Energy Star Partner of the Year for Excellence in Energy Management for the past two years. For more information about Marriott International, visit www.marriott.com.