Short Takes

Museums & Attractions

• A recently discovered archeological zone, Tehuacalco, less than an hour from Acapulco, Mexico, will open to the public later this year. Tehuacalco is located in Chilpancingo in the southern region of the state of Guerrero, where the Yope civilization once resided. Believed to be a ceremonial center, the name Tehuacalco has three different meanings in the ancient Nahuatl tongue: a place of the stone box, place of the priests’ houses and place of the sacred water house. The site includes the remains of a ball court, residential space and holy temple. For more information, visit www.visitacapulco.com.mx.

• Hilton Sedona Resort and Spa in Arizona is offering meetings packages in honor of its four newly opened executive meeting rooms. Features of the new meeting spaces include flat-panel plasma screens, high-speed Internet access and video and teleconferencing capabilities. Meeting packages include the Luxury Meeting Package, which features one-bedroom suite accommodations, specialty dining selections and mini massages for $354 per person, as well as the Day Meeting Package from $99 per person, with less expensive half-day options. For more information, call 928.284.4040 or visit www.hiltonsedona.com.

• California’s Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach is offering a 2008 Value Dates Rebate. Planners who book a meeting with 25 or more rooms on Extra Value Dates between May 16 and Dec. 30 receive a credit of up to $20,000. For more information, call 714.845.4901 or visit http://huntingtonbeach.hyatt.com.

• Great Escapes: Northern California, a book by travel industry journalist Laura Del Rosso, was recently released by The Countryman Press, a division of W.W. Norton & Co. Del Rosso, who has written for MEETINGS WEST and other industry publications, drew on her years of traveling the region and covering the California travel industry to write the 192-page book. Chapters cover cities such as San Francisco and Sacramento as well as Sierra Nevada mountain resorts, Gold Rush-era towns and Wine Country destinations. The chapters offer suggestions for stays at historic hotels, bed-and-breakfast inns and hotels, and places to eat that range from casual eateries to Michelin-starred restaurants. Each chapter also includes activity options: easy hikes, bike rides, farmers’ markets, museums to visit, and cave tours, among them. Discounts on the books are available for bulk purchases for meeting planners. For more information, call 800.635.5009 or visit www.greatescapesnorcal.com.