 |  | New Tech Tool Brings Chi-Town's Past to Life
If your group is headed to the Windy City, any attendees who are history buffs can now get much more out of their visit than in the past. A new smart phone application, called "It Happened Here,” detects a user's location ... Read more >>
Princess Cruises Unveils Tasty Upgrades
Princess Cruises has revealed more details about several of the main dining room and specialty restaurant options that will be available aboard Royal Princess... Read more >>
Minnesota Marina Adding Two Hotels
Plans have resurfaced for a three-story hotel at Harbor Cove Marina on Park Point, near a nine-story hotel planned for the marina next door... Read more >>
Fairmont Buys Sonoma Mission Inn
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts has bought the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa... Read more >>
| Chicago
This May, Chicago will become the first American city other than Washington to host a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit and the first city to host both the NATO and G8 economic summits... Read more >> | Lake Geneva
Situated halfway between Milwaukee and Chicago, Lake Geneva, Wis., brims with history while emphasizing the distinctive seasons and the great outdoors... Read more >> | Michigan
Michigan may be best known for automotive history and the Great Lakes, but this state can still serve up some surprises, from the Underground Railroad history of Detroit and Ann Arbor to the covered bridge tours of Grand Rapids... Read more >> | South Dakota
Good ole plains hospitality, wide-open scenery, affordable facilities and good accessibility are among the reasons meeting attendees find South Dakota locations appealing... Read more >> | | 
| Saint Charles Convention Center |  | The Saint Charles Convention Center in historic St. Charles, Missouri offers a central location just west of Saint Louis and a 10 minute drive from Lambert-St. Louis Airport.
The 154,000-square-foot Convention Center offers flexible meeting and pre-function space in two exhibit halls, a grand ballroom, a junior ballroom and six additional meeting rooms. The flexibility allows for as many as 18 breakout rooms. The facility is attached to a John Q. Hammons Embassy Suites Hotel with 296 two-room suites. | | | For more information, click here! |
|  | Iconic downtown Las Vegas hotel getting a fresh new face
Another downtown hotel casino is undergoing renovations and will change its name. Fitzgeralds is now The D Las Vegas... Read more >>
InterContinental opens hotel in Houston
InterContinental Hotels Group Plc said March 13 that it opened the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Houston North Intercontinental... Read more >>
Marriott Executive Apartment Hotel Panama City, Finisterre Opens
Located in the heart of downtown Panama City, Panama the hotel offers studio-, one- and two-bedroom apartments for guests on short or extended stays... Read more >>
UK's 'toughest hotel' opens its doors
A hotel billed as one of the toughest in the UK has today opened its doors to the public... Read more>>
| Budget Bites
When planning a banquet—or a range of food and beverage events over the course of an event—on a budget, one’s first instinct might be to order the chicken versus the steak, buffet versus plated, and take other basic steps to keep costs low... Read more >>
Sunshine Lost in the Clouds
For close to two years, pharmaceutical and medical meeting planners have been gearing up for the start of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (PPSA, or the “Sunshine Act”), which initially required companies to start tracking payments to physicians and teaching hospitals at the beginning of this year... Read more >>
Unlikely Customers
In these uncertain economic times, convention centers—much like most businesses—are repeating this mantra: “Find new revenue sources.”
“Convention centers are under immense pressure to boost and sustain occupancy and there’s never been a greater need to find new events and customers,” says Steven Hacker... Read more >>
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 |  | 10 Tips for More Productive Meetings
The National Conference Center compiled ten tips for conducting more productive meetings... Read more >>
Massive Mixed-Use Makeover
On March 12, a gala ribbon cutting will mark the beginning of a new downtown Salt Lake, a massive urban reinvention and a game changer for residents and visitors alike... Read more >>
Camelback Concessions
This summer, JW Marriott Camelback Inn Resort & Spa’s Summer Concession Package will provide special perks to groups gathering at the inviting Arizona enclave... Read more >>
Indy Gets Artsy
Buckingham Companies and the Indianapolis Museum of Art today announced that they are collaborating on the art program for The Alexander, a new hotel in downtown Indianapolis... Read more >>
| Museum Medley
Adams Museum, Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center (www.adamsmuseumandhouse.org) in Deadwood is one of the top and Old West museums in the country... Read more >>
Spectacular Off-Sites
Even though Lake Geneva seems “off-site” to begin with, there are numerous options outside the meeting room... Read more >>
Site Scene
Michigan
A 12,000-square-foot Hard Rock Cafe is planned to open this summer at the Four Winds Casino in New Buffalo with seating for 275 and a live music stage... Read more >>
Short Takes
Destination Dispatch
In an effort to cut costs and streamline organizational procedures, the not-for-profit Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau and the city’s Office of Tourism will merge to become a single tourism entity... Read more >>
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