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Casino Resort Set for Pacific Northwest
Officials of the Yakama Nation unveiled plans for a $90 million expansion of their Legends Casino in Toppenish, Wash., that include a 200-room hotel with meeting space, a spa and other amenities.
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Alaska Airlines Adds Service to Kauai
Alaska Airlines is launching nonstop service between Kauai and two California cities, Oakland and San Jose, this week.
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Eisenstodt Wins Top IACC Award
Meetings industry veteran Joan Eisenstodt, chief strategist of Washington, D.C.-based Eisenstodt Associates and moderator of Meetings Focus Forum, owned by Meetings Focus, won the International Association of Conference Centers' Mel Hosansky Distinguished Service award.
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U.S. Hotels Post Rate, Occupancy Ganicins
The U.S. hotel industry posted increases in all three key performance measurements during February, according to STR.
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Executive Retreats
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By KATIE MORELL
No longer hamstrung by perception issues, more meetings for high-level executives are going forward this year. However, these meetings tend to be shorter, lower in profile and far less lavish than in the pre-recenissionary era of executive excess.
"I think we've gotten through the worst of it," says Julie Walker, president of Walker Business Solutions, an independent meeting planning company based in Mechanicsburg, Pa. "I don't think companies are as scared as they were a few years ago."
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Site Scene
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On May 7, Vancouver's Rosewood Hotel Georgia will open its doors, exactly 84 years to the day after the original Hotel Georgia first opened in 1927. The newly renovated property will feature 155 rooms and suites, and will offer a spa, a fitness center and an indoor salt water lap pool. For groups, the hotel will offer 9,847 square feet of indoor meeting and prefunction space as well as specialty suites with rooftop terraces, a garden courtyard, a jazz lounge and Hawksworth Restaurant's private dining room, which can be utilized as a venue for a a variety of social events. For more information, call 604.682.5566.
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What are some of the recent trends with group meetings and golfing getaways? Zachary Chouteau checked in with the PGA National Resort & Spa's VP of Sales, Marketing and Revenue Development—David Fine—while visiting the resort for the recent Honda Classic PGA tournament. Here's the scoop from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
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