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Choose the Kansas City Marriott Downtown for your next meeting…and pick five great concessions, including double Marriott Reward Points and more!
Located steps from the vibrant downtown Power & Light District & connected to the Kansas City Convention Center, this premier convention hotel offers 983 luxury guest rooms and 100,000 square feet of diverse function space. With amazing amenities and superb service, there’s no better location for your group’s comfort and success.
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Tech is Tops
…for new and renovated hotels
By RUTH A. HILL
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There’s no place like home, the old adage declares, and hotel guests now expect their sleeping rooms to have everything they enjoy—or would like to enjoy—back on their personal turf.
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New and renovating hotels are responding to these expectations with much more than comfy beds. Included are well-equipped workspaces with ergonomic chairs and good task lighting, connectivity that matches what’s available in public spaces, small fridges for order-up and brought-in snacks, and even in-room fitness equipment.
Lobbies are looking more like living rooms than sterile check-in and walk-through spaces these days. Guests gather in welcoming common areas to meet and socialize, check online messages and call up dining and entertainment ideas on their computers.
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| Greater Des Moines Convention & Visitors Bureau |
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Connect in Des Moines! Iowa’s capital city is celebrating the opening of Iowa’s largest convention center in January 2012. The Iowa Events Center is a state-of-the-art, extravagant facility with 226,000 square feet of space, 37 meeting rooms and a 28,730-square-foot ballroom all connected to four miles of skywalks in Downtown Des Moines. Greater Des Moines also boasts the beautiful, new World Food Prize Hall of Laureates. Connect in Des Moines for your next successful event!
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Short Takes
MUSEUMS & ATTRACTIONS
- The National Geographic exhibition Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt is on display at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) through April 29, 2012. The exhibition features over 150 artifacts, religious tokens, coins and jewelery pieces from Cleopatra’s rule during the Ptolemaic period, as well historic records of the 2,000-year search for the enigmatic queen’s final resting place. The MPM is the third stop on the exhibition’s international tour. The museum is also celebrating its 127th anniversary with a virtual exhibit showcasing 127 items from the its collection. For more information, call 414.278.2702 or visit www.mpm.edu.
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INDIANA
- The city of Lawrenceburg and the Hollywood Casino broke ground on the new Lawrenceburg Convention Center in October. The convention and events center is slated to open in summer 2013 and will include an 18,000-square-foot exhibition and concert hall, a 7,500-square-foot ballroom, a 180-room hotel and a 150-seat restaurant. For more information, call 888.2746797 or visit www.hollywoodindiana.com.
MICHIGAN
- The Shoreline Inn & Conference Center in Muskegon, Mich., was one of three unique properties added to the upscale Ascend Collection this fall. The 10-story hotel has 140 guest rooms. The Shoreline Conference Center can accommodate groups of up to 350 in a waterfront ballroom and three salons. The facility is located near Muskegon Lake. For more information, call 231.727.8483 or visit www.shorelineinn.com.
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2011 APEC Conference - Mike McCartney
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Tyler Davidson, chief content director of Meetings Focus, discusses the importance of the 2011 APEC conference to Hawaii's meetings industry with Mike McCartney, president and CEO of the Hawaii Tourism Authority .
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