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This month's issue features an On Location! video shot at Cedar Rapids, Iowa’s The Hotel at Kirkwood Center, a soon-to-open hotel and meeting facility on the campus of Kirkwood Community College, which offers perhaps the top hospitality program in the nation at a two-year college. Also, Career Forum columnist Sheryl Sookman Schelter augments her column on job interview techniques with some important video tips that will help planners be better prepared when the interview spotlight shines on them. |
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Short Takes
Kudos
Hilton Chicago received the 2009 Star of the Industry Award in Good Earthkeeping from the Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association for its environmental efforts. The Good Earthkeeping Award recognizes lodging properties that have developed a culture toward integrating superior environmental management practices that improve everyday operations. The hotel focuses on conservation in a number of areas: recycling, energy and water conservation, solid waste reduction, effluents and emissions, purchasing and business issues. To realize this goal, a green committee was formed, comprising of 15 hotel team members from various departments. In 2009, the hotel diverted 167 tons of recyclables from landfills, including paper/cardboard, glass, plastics/metals and miscellaneous items such as batteries and fluorescent bulbs. In addition, the green committee planted a rooftop garden, which supplies fresh herbs as well as vegetables to the kitchen for use in meal preparation. For more information, call 312.922.4400.
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Site Scene
Illinois
Work is under way on the expansion of the Tinley Park Convention Center in south Chicago. An additional 24,000 square feet of exhibit space will be built, bringing the total of contiguous space to more than 58,000 square feet. Also part of the project will be 9,000 square feet of function space. More than 20 breakout rooms are planned as part of the expansion project, as well as the addition of a warming/serving kitchen. Other features will include Wi-Fi connectivity and a business center. The expansion is scheduled to be completed in May 2011. A 202-room Holiday Inn Hotel is connected to the Tinley Park Convention Center. For more information, call 708.895.8200.
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| Leveraging Your CVB Conference Centers Webinar |
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Conference centers offer venues at which meetings are the focus and meeting participants can concentrate on business. For meeting professionals, conference centers offer an ease of planning and budgeting.
In this webinar, top industry educator Joan Eisenstodt discovers what benefits—from ease of planning to perception—can be gained meeting in a dedicated learning environment such as a conference center.
Sponsored by: Banff Centre, Hyatt Regency DFW, Blair County Convention Center, IACC, South San Francisco Conf. Center, The Woodlands Resort & Conf. Center, Pyramid Hotel Group, The Desmond and Wyndham Peachtree Hotel & Conf. Center. |
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