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MPI to Offer Digital WEC Access
MPI plans to offer wide-ranging digital access to its upcoming World Education Congress, scheduled for July 23-26 in Orlando, at www.mpiweb.org.
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Hotel Investment, Transactions Surging
Favorable conditions are leading to a an upsurge in global hotel investments and transactions, including a 187 percent increase in the Americas during the first six months of 2011 over the same period in 2010, according to a report from the hotel investment services firm Jones Lang LaSalle.
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Big Apple to Welcome Nolitan
The Nolitan Hotel, a luxury boutique property with a roof deck available for special events, is set to open in August in New York City.
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StarCite, Experient Unveil Meetings Tool
Experient, a meetings management firm, and StarCite, a web-based meetings technology provider, teamed up to offer MeetingsComplete, a service and technology bundle designed to help small and mid-size companies manage their meetings spend more strategically.
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Long Island/NYC/Westchester
Onward and Upward
By JEFF HEILMAN
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Tourists in Gotham frequently gape skyward, while locals walk determinedly level-eyed, in part to avoid looking like tourists. Nowadays, however, developments in Lower Manhattan are raising all heads up, as the new World Trade Center (WTC) site makes its awe-inspiring rise.
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At press time, steel work on One World Trade Center (previously the Freedom Tower) had reached the 60th floor. Set to soar a symbolic 1,776 feet as America's tallest building, the tower ushers in a new era of "looking up" for the metropolis. The eyes of the world will be on the site this Sept. 11, when the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, now visibly taking shape within the WTC site, is dedicated.
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Dining Diversity - Long Island/NYC/Westchester
By JEFF HEILMAN
Whether going high-energy in the city, sojourning on Long Island or team building in Westchester, New York delegates are certain to work up big appetites. Here are four choice group selections from the region's extensive culinary menu.
Named for its location at the intersection of two famed financial district streets, the classy Wall & Water (212.699.1700; www.hyatt.com/gallery/wall&water) at the new Andaz Wall Street hotel, its sleek, high-ceilinged interior etched with U.S currency design, showcases market-to-table comfort food sourced from Hudson Valley farms and markets. Chef Maximo Lopez May's cheese, charcuterie and chutney plates alone are worth the booking. Groups have two dynamic spaces, a chef's table for 12 hugging the open kitchen and an uber-sexy private room. Plus, chef May organizes a seasonal farmers market outside the hotel and hosts bi-monthly cooking classes in the restaurant.
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Meetings & Resorts
Upscale Upturn
By KATIE MORELL
Two years ago, many corporate executives wouldn't have dreamed of stepping foot inside a luxury resort. Today, the landscape looks vastly different, as fading perception issues, an improved economy and a lack of new supply are turning the tide for upscale resort properties.
"It's been a wild rollercoaster," says hospitality industry analyst Jan Freitag, vice president of global development for STR Global in Hendersonville, Tenn. "While the global and U.S. economy had its meltdown, the upper end of the market was hit disproportionally hard and went way down. But now it is way up again."
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